$10 Lib GTG

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55

 

Au but I want to say details

 

58

 

Same here.

 

It's an Indian not a Lib

Wear on curl under B in LIBERTY, wear on highest area of eagle's left wing

XF45 with old cleaning

 

It's an Eagle ($10 eagle denomination) that bears a portrait Liberty wearing a stylized Native American (Indian) warbonnet. It is not a portrait of an indigenous Native American (Indian) person, but rather the symbolic figure representing Liberty who appears in portrait, hence the title emblazoned on the headdress. Sure the coins are commonly referred to as "gold Indian Head Eagles", but calling it a Liberty (Lib) eagle isn't technically inaccurate, it's just not the common nomenclature the coins are ordinarily referred to.

The OPs coin seems to be a pretty one. I'll jump over the line in my guess from the AU guesses above and say it comes out MS60, and might be over graded at 61 by the TPG. I'd personally give it 58.

I don't see what KoinJester might be seeing, so I wish he'd say why he's thinking details to help us out with that. Are you thinking it was in jewelry?

BTW, thanks for the enormous zoom enlargement photos. It really is a good image to look at everything closely! We don't get enough giant pics like these!

 

Krispy, did not want to influence other opinions. The area below the nose bothers me. It might be the lighting. The scratch on the reverse don't bother me as much though.

 

It's what's called in the business a "slider". Could be AU but it might slide into a low MS. I'm thinking it's graded AU tho.

 

58. Little too much field rub for it to upgrade to mint state.

 

I'm going to call it AU58.

 

AU 55, I love the colour.

 

Thanks.

 

I bought it at a discount because its a details holder, but I still think its a nice coin. I actually like it better than my AU58 $10.

 

The way I see it, most every coin has been dipped or lightly handled at some point in it's life anyway. Just because a TPG didn't find it market acceptable doesn't mean it isn't a beautiful coin....at a better price Great pick up!

 

I agree that it's a great coin. Based on the photos, the scratch doesn't look that bad. I'd be interested to see it in hand, but unless the photos are really covering it up...I'd say you got a nice coin at a bargain.

 

Thank you!

I noticed others say "scratch", but was curious where it was, too. I was thinking it's the two parallel vertical lines from the temple down the cheek. Yes/No?