Finally Got My Favorite Coin, $10 Indian!

Discussion in 'US Coins Forum' started by Mkm5, Jan 7, 2025.

  1. Mkm5

    Mkm5 Well-Known Member

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    IMG_20250107_210500350~2.jpg 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!
     
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  3. ddddd

    ddddd Member

    Congrats! Nice to see that you were able to get a want list item!
     
  4. BuffaloHunter

    BuffaloHunter Short of a full herd Supporter

    Nice coin, congrats!

    I also was lucky enough to add this type to my collection last year.
     
  5. Mkm5

    Mkm5 Well-Known Member

    That's great! It's a real classic design.
     
  6. Mkm5

    Mkm5 Well-Known Member

    Thank you!

    The $10 has always been elusive, either can't find a nice one, or too expensive, or both!
     
  7. Tall Paul

    Tall Paul Supporter! Supporter

    My favorite of the St Gaudens gold designs. Congratulations on achieving a numismatic bucket list item.
     
  8. Mkm5

    Mkm5 Well-Known Member

    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!
     
  9. Pickin and Grinin

    Pickin and Grinin Well-Known Member

    Nice! I picked up an 08' a little while back, my favorite of the 10$ designs
     
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  10. Collecting Nut

    Collecting Nut Borderline Hoarder

    She’s a beauty! Congratulations
     
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  11. mrweaseluv

    mrweaseluv Supporter! Supporter

    I waited a lot of years to get mine to and Yeah is probably my favorite of all the gold coins :D
     
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  12. johnmilton

    johnmilton Well-Known Member

    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.
     
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