1909-S Indian Head Eagle
From the original mintage of 292,350 pieces, perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 survive today, and perhaps half of those qualify as Mint State. This date and mint is the 13th most difficult of the 32 coins in the Indian eagle collection to obtain. Many of those known today in Mint State turned up in an otherwise random hoard of gold coins in 1977, much to the delight of collectors today.
The example to the left was sold by Stack's Bowers Galleries in the August 2013 Chicago ANA Auction, where it realized $64,625.