1910-D $10 Indian Head Eagle PCGS MS64

1910-D $10 Indian Head Eagle PCGS MS64

     We at AUCM are quite pleased to present for your numismatic pleasure and consideration a great, and quite affordable, type coin: a 1910-D Indian Head eagle in PCGS MS64. David Akers writes, "By a very large margin the 1910-D is the most common branch mint Indian Head eagle. In fact, it is one of the commonest eagles of this type and is very easy to obtain in MS-63 or lower condition and is not much harder to find in MS-64....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."

      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.”