Designed by: Augustus Saint-Gaudens
Issue Dates: 1907-1908
Composition: 90% gold, 10% copper
Diameter: 27 mm
Weight: 16.72 grams (258.02 grains)
Edge: 46 raised stars
Business Strike Mintage: 483,448
Proof Mintage: None
Following the coinage of two varieties of experimental pieces (referred to as the Wire and Rounded Rim), with periods before and after the legends on the reverse, business strikes of the 1907-1908 issue were produced for circulation. The obverse depicts Miss Liberty wearing an Indian headdress inscribed LIBERTY on a band, 13 stars are in an arc above, and the date is below. The reverse depicts a perched eagle with UNITED STATES OF AMERICA above, the motto E PLURIBUS UNUM to the right, and the denomination expressed as TEN DOLLARS below. As President Roosevelt personally objected to the use of the name of the Deity on coins, the Indian issues of 1907 and certain issues of 1908 lack IN GOD WE TRUST. Coinage of the type was struck at Philadelphia in 1907 and 1908 and also in Denver the latter year.
Specimens are readily available in grades from Extremely Fine to AU. Uncirculated pieces are seen with some regularity, but superb Uncirculated coins are decidedly rare.
