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<p>[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1941490, member: 19065"]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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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.</p><p><br /></p><p>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?</p><p><br /></p><p>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![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="krispy, post: 1941490, member: 19065"]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![/QUOTE]
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