1910-D $10 Indian Head Eagle PCGS MS63

Here’s an attractive and reasonably priced example to add to your collection. PCGS has graded 3,117 as MS63 with 1,123 finer. Collectors Universe prices this issue at $2,000.00 in MS63.

Gold specialist David Akers writes, " The strike on a typical 1910-D is very sharp, and the lustre is generally good to very good...All specimens I have seen are frosty with finely granular surfaces, and the color is most often a light to medium orange and greenish gold."

Theodore Roosevelt, the numismatic president. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

President Theodore Roosevelt initiated the change in U.S. coinage in collaboration with sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. It was his passion. For two and a half years, Roosevelt found the time, even in the midst of political and diplomatic struggles, to be deeply involved in numismatics. It was with a critical eye that the President followed every step in Saint-Gaudens’ work, making suggestions throughout the process.

He didn’t care that Treasury Secretary Shaw thought he was “a cracked-brained lunatic on the subject.” The most obvious innovation from Roosevelt’s creative mind vis-à-vis the coins was in the case of the Liberty head on the $10 eagle. He requested that Saint-Gaudens replace the Phrygian cap in his original design with a traditional Indian feather headdress. The artist agreed wholeheartedly with the argument that “American Liberty should, if possible, have something distinctly American about her.”