1878 $3 Indian Princess Three Dollar PCGS MS62

Here's a great collectible gold type coin that is more reasonably priced in the grade of MS62. Everyone simply loves the Indian Princess design upon gold coins. Crafted by James B. Longacre, this beautiful yet simple design has won the hearts and minds of numismatists for well over 150 years! PCGS has graded 1,224 as MS62, with 2,236 finer.

Scholar Cornelius Vermeule writes that the bonnet atop the Indian Princess is similar to "figureheads of ships..."

Numismatic art scholar Cornelius Vermeule writes, "The 'princess'... is a banknote engraver's elegant version of folk art of the 1850s. The plumes or feathers are more like the crest of the Prince of Wales than anything that saw the Western frontiers, save perhaps on a music hall beauty. Iconographically this type of Indian maiden had occurred in American and 'primitive' paintings for many years past. The figureheads of ships and the sculptures before tobacconists' shops sported faces, tresses, and bonnets of this type."