1891 $10 Liberty Head Eagle PCGS MS63+ (CAC) - Condition Rarity!

A pristine example of a common issue in a premier level of preservation. PCGS has graded 6 in MS63+, with just 5 finer. NGC has none in MS63+, with 2 finer (one each of MS64 and MS65). Therefore it is a Condition Rarity as well as an excellent candidate for a Registry Set. In CAC, there are 5 in MS63/63+ with only 3 finer. The beautiful bright yellow-gold coloration helps this piece stand out from the crowd.

Pierre-Narcisse Guérin's work Pythagoras or The Earth is Round, circa 1800.

Discussing the design found upon the Liberty Head eagle, numismatic scholar and art critic Cornelius Vermeule writes, "The motivation for this Roman head of Liberty stems from vast, varied neoclassicism of the Napoleonic era. Typical of the source is a small painting ... by Jacques-Louis David's contemporary Pierre-Narcisse Guérin, Pythagoras or The Earth is Round, painted about 1800. ... [On the painting it] is the diademed or coroneted, white-robed, seated female that should attract our attention, for she is related to the heads of Liberty on our 19th century gold ... coinage."