LOT Heritage Rare Coin Galleries  /  2006 October Dallas Signature Coin Auction #428  / 

3031

From The Clifton Rodenburg Collection.

Currency:USD Category:Coins & Paper Money / US Coins Start Price:1.00 USD Estimated At:1.00 - 1,000,000.00 USD
From The Clifton Rodenburg Collection.
<B>1907<$10> Wire Rim MS64 PCGS.</B></I> The first Indian eagles coined at the Philadelphia Mint, the Wire Rim and Rolled Rim issues, feature this design as Augustus Saint-Gaudens intended. Cornelius Vermeule discussed this issue and the Saint-Gaudens double eagle in his book <I>Numismatic Art in America,</B></I> published in 1971, and these words still ring true today: "Both coins seem as modern sixty years after they were conceived as any issues, American or otherwise, produced in the past generation; and compared with what had been tolerated heretofore in the United States both burst as artistic skyrockets in the horizons of our academic creativity." It is obvious that Vermeule was partial to the double eagle design, as he further commented: "The eagle with its head of Liberty in an Indian bonnet and a standing eagle recalling the bird of Ptolemaic coins missed being a great coin because Roosevelt interfered in the choice of headdress (or no headdress) for Liberty."<BR> This Choice Mint State example, a remarkably attractive specimen of the Saint-Gaudens design has fully brilliant yellow-gold color with satin luster. The fields have a fine grain surface that imparts a matte-like appearance. Both sides have the usual quota of small surface marks and abrasions that are consistent with the grade. This particular example should provide an excellent compromise between quality and price.<BR><I>From The Clifton Rodenburg Collection.</B></I>
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