Liberty Head Eagle w/ Motto (1866 - 1907)

The $10 eagle issued since 1866 was a continuation of the original design by Christian Gobrecht which was also used on the Quarter eagle and Half Eagles, and featured a Coronet Head, a neoclassic head of Liberty adorned with a coronet inscribed LIBERTY. Thirteen stars surround the bust, with the date below.

The reverse depicts an eagle holding arrows and an olive branch, encircled by the inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and TEN D. Chief Engraver James Barton Longacre placed the new motto on a scroll over the eagle’s head.

Over the entire life of the series, only 37 dates show six-digit production, and just 10 dates saw more than one million struck, with most of those appearing btween 1893 and the last year of production in 1907.

Indian Head Eagle (1907 - 1933)

The new gold coins of 1907 were the result of the unprecedented collaboration of a great sculptor and a dynamic President, Theodore Roosevelt and Augustus St. Guadens.

The bust on the new eagle was almost identical to the Nike head(Victory) that Saint Gaudens designed for Sherman’s monument in New York’s Central Park. At Roosevelt’s insistence, she shed her laurel crown for a handsome, but historically impossible Indian feathered war bonnet. LIBERTY was inscribed on the Indian’s headdress, with 13 stars above the head and the date below. The reverse’s eagle stands on a bundle of arrows, with the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM to the right. Encircling the periphery above the eagle is the legend UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Below is the denomination TEN DOLLARS.

A departure from other standards is found on the edge of the coin where 46 raised stars appear between 1907 and 1911, and 48 raised stars between 1912 and 1933. The stars are arranged signifying the states of the Union. The mint mark can be found on the coin’s reverse to the left of the branch. The motto was restored by an act of Congress in 1908.

Regular issue coins were struck at all three Mints from 1908 through 1911, and 1914; Only Philadelphia and San Francisco struck eagles in 1912, 1913 and 1915, and only San Francisco struck them in 1916 and 1920. Few Americans noticed the change to 48 stars on the edge in 1912, honoring statehood achieved by Arizona and New Mexico. Coinage throughout the 1920’s was very sporadic, representing just four dates: 1926, 1930-S, 1932 and 1933. The Philadelphia Mint struck 312,500 coins in 1933, but released only a few dozen pieces before President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 6260 ended circulation of gold coins and notes.

Issues most commonly sold as generic mint state examples are ethe 1926 and 1932.

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