It's been on my wanted list for many years; premiums are pretty high on these so I always passed them up, but I guess it was time!
My favorite of the St Gaudens gold designs. Congratulations on achieving a numismatic bucket list item.
St Gaudens was a true master of his craft. My great grandfather was a skilled silver and gold smith in the 1800s. I didn't inherit his talent for the arts, but both he and I grew up building and fixing cars too, albeit 100 years apart!
I bought my first $10 Indian when I was a junior in high school in the mid 1960s. I paid $43 for it. I bought it from Stacks’ in New York. For $3 dollars more, I could have had one in MS-63 to 65. Grading was not as precise in those days. It was either MS-60, which is what I got, or “Gem.” I did pay $45 for a $10 Liberty in “Choice Unc,” which is now in an MS-65 holder. Those were the days. Coin investors didn’t think that gold coins had that much potential so the prices were low. The $43 price was more like $430 in today’s prices. Inflation has changed things. I replaced it with a raw piece I bought in the mid 1970s for $240. That one is now in an NGC MS-64 holder. I now have one in an MS-66 holder for which I paid an arm and both legs.