1890 Eagle - 1890 $10 PCGS MS62. This well struck, Mint State 1890 Eagle is highly lustrous and significant eye-appeal. Full details are present on the centers of the stars, the hair over Libertys ear and top of her head, the eagles neck, and the area to the lower left of the shield. No wear is present on the coin, and the surfaces are original and, except for a small scrape between Stars 8 and 9, clean for the grade. The rose-gold color, intense luster, and full strike make this piece particularly attractive.

The Liberty Head eagle, designed by Christian Gobrecht, shows Liberty facing left in profile wearing a LIBERTY inscribed coronet with her hair tied in the back in beads. Two long curls hang down her neck, one in the back and the other on the side. She is surrounded with thirteen six-pointed stars. The date is below the truncation, which shows no drapery. The motif is taken from a Benjamin West painting of Venus. It was also used with modifications for the Large Cents of 1839.

The reverse shows a heraldic eagle with outstretched wing looking to the left. On its chest is the Union shield. In its talons it holds the olive branch and arrows. The error in the previous issue, Scots eagle held the arrows and the olive branches in the wrong talons, is corrected. Except for being interrupted by the tips of the eagles wings UNITED STATES OF AMERICA surrounds the reverse, separated from the denomination TEN D. by dots. Dentils are near the edge on both sides of the coin, and the edge is reeded.

The Type 2 Liberty Head eagle was created when the motto IN GOD WE TRUST was added to a banner designed by James B. Longacre above the eagle in 1866. The change was made in response to pressure organized by the Reverend M.R. Watkinson. The motto remained until 1907, when President Theodore Roosevelt told Augustus Saint-Gaudens to omit it on the newly designed eagle.