United States 1932 Gold Eagle $10 Philadelphia Mint MS63

Ocean City Jewelers Presents a spectacular 1932 Gold Eagle One of the greatest coins in history was born when President Theodore Roosevelt sought out the greatest living American sculptor, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and commissioned him to redesign the U.S. $10 Gold Eagle. Roosevelt thought our nation's gold coins needed to reflect the newly found power the United States had gained on the world stage. Working together, the two great men soon unveiled this stunning gold masterpiece: the Saint-Gaudens $10 Gold Eagle.

The coin features a bold Indian in a spectacular headdress and a defiant Eagle ready to fight. Struck by the U.S. Mint through World War I, Prohibition and the early years of the Great Depression, the coin was a cornerstone of commerce.

Very few of these original Saint-Gaudens $10 Gold Indians have survived and remain in existence today thanks to America going off the gold standard in 1933, which resulted in massive hoards of these coins being ruthlessly melted in the 1930s. And when it comes to the two coins that Roosevelt and Saint-Gaudens collaborated on – the $10 Gold Indian and the $20 Double Eagle, considered the most beautiful American coins ever minted