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1929 $5 Indian

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:14,000.00 USD Estimated At:28,000.00 - 32,000.00 USD
1929 $5 Indian
<Our item number 108363><B>1929 &#36;5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-64.</B> Lovely rich golden toning. Sint in once to PCGS for grading. Popular key date. The frosty textured surfaces are awash in rich orange-gold colors, and both sides are uncommonly well struck for this key year, a date that can be indifferently struck on occasion. In fact, as the photographs show and as a 5x loupe amply displays, the coin is desirable with this exact strike. This coin is a brilliant exception to rule that only dullish or abraded 1929 half eagles are the norm. It has sharpness everywhere. <BR><BR>The 1929 five-dollar Indian is an example where the original mintage is a deceptive gauge of how truly scarce the coin is. Mintage was officially 662,000; however, the great volume of these must have stayed in the Treasury or been locked in Federal Reserve vaults, as only a few hundred remain. Most are believed to have been melted in 1937 and later years after the government &#34;nationalized&#34; &#40;seized&#41; the gold coins held in trust for the American public and recast them into gold ingots. Few collectors of the time appreciated the corollary of this seizure: that few 1929 half eagles would remain. <B>Pop 96; 8 in 65.</B> <B>&#40;PCGS # 8533&#41;</B>. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;28,000-32,000. <BR><BR>Our item number 108363<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/39jpegs/108363.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/39jpegs/108363N2.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>