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3386- 1907 $10 Indian. Wire Rim, Periods PCGS MS63

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3386- 1907 $10 Indian. Wire Rim, Periods PCGS MS63
<Our item number 119371><B>1907 &#36;10 Indian. Wire rim, periods. PCGS graded MS-63 PQ.</B> Only 500 coins minted. Very nice Premium Quality example for the grade. A rare and popular transitional issue, designs are exactly as Saint-Gaudens wanted them, before the Mint made disastrous modifications in the No Motto coinage of 1907; one of a mere 500 pieces made without intentions of circulation, technically making the Wire Edge ten a pattern in the estimation of some scholars &#40;Judd-1774&#41;. This issue was the closest the mint came to reproducing the ten-dollar design as conceived by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Theodore Roosevelt. The presently offered coin has subtly variegated blends of gold color and only the smallest ticks, none of them singular or noticeable. The die polishing marks &#40;common to all specimens&#41; are more definite on the reverse fields and overall the coin has a bright choice satiny sheen. <B>Pop 50; 159 finer</B> <B>&#40;PCGS # 8850&#41;</B>. <BR><BR>The profile Saint-Gaudens chos e originated in a figure of Nike &#40;&#39;Victory&#39;&#41;, part of his General Sherman Monument &#40;1905&#41;. At President Theodore Roosevelt&#39;s urging, and for no other reason, the artist gave this head a nationalistic character by the addition of a feathered warbonnet, such as neither Liberty nor any Native American woman would ever have worn. And so the new design acquired the misleading name of &#34;Indian head,&#34; properly applicable only to Bela Lyon Pratt&#39;s 1908-29 half eagles and quarter eagles. <BR>Estimated Value &#36;30,000-35,000. <BR><BR>Our item number 119371<BR><IMAGES><P ALIGN="CENTER"><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/42jpegs/119371.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/42jpegs/119371N2.jpg"> <BR><IMG SRC="http://www.goldbergcoins.net/liveauction/42jpegs/119371N3.jpg"> </P></IMAGES>