1908 Indian Head Eagle
With Motto
In general, the 1908 Motto issue is not that difficult to obtain. The mintage of 341,486 pieces suffered the usual mass meltings in later years, and today there are perhaps three to four percent of the original mintage around. This is one of the more common issues in the series, although it is certainly much less often seen in Gem condition than the 1907 No Periods and the 1926 and 1932 issues.
The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the August 2018 Philadelphia ANA Auction, where it realized $84,000.