1866-S Liberty Head Eagle. No Motto. AU Details--Altered Surfaces (PCGS). A somewhat more affordable, yet still highly desirable example of this elusive $10 Liberty Head issue. Warm, even color in honey-rose provides strong eye appeal to surfaces that retain appreciable mint frost. Sharply to fully struck in virtually all areas, and free of sizeable or otherwise individually mentionable marks. We do, however, note some faint hairlines and a curious haziness in the right obverse field that explain the PCGS qualifier. The reverse is more original in appearance.</p><p>The final No Motto Liberty Head eagle and the only one bearing this date, the 1866-S has a paltry mintage of 8,500 pieces. With the vast majority of coins lost to commercial use, no more than 40 or 55 examples are believed extant in all grades (per <em>PCGS CoinFacts</em>). The present example, although not perfect, is well suited for an advanced collection of Liberty Head eagles or San Francisco Mint gold coinage.</p> PCGS# 8644. NGC ID: 264H.
