Goldberg Coins and Collectibles

Sale 37

Pre-Long Beach Coin and Currency Auction

$5 Indian

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 2128		1908 $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-64. Rich golden-orange mint color. An unquestioned high-end '64 with vibrant, warmly toned surfaces and a clear strike (PCGS # 8510) . Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,000. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,680
Lot 2129		1908 $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Brilliant throughout with fine-grain, matte-like orange luster, there are no heavy bagmarks on either side that are worthy of mention (PCGS # 8510) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,530
Lot 2130		1908 $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Well struck., bright and untoned. A highly lustrous Indian $5 that has nicely preserved surfaces. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,588
Lot 2131		1908 $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-62. Lightly toned. Swimming in mint brilliance over each side of this "antique gold" toned Indian five. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,100. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,265
Lot 2132		1908-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Nice and frosty and lightly toned. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,645
Lot 2133		1908-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Rich golden-orange color. Smooth mint luster gives this coin much of its life and beauty (PCGS # 8511) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,645
Lot 2134		1908-S $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-61 PQ. A decent strike. Nice and frosty. Golden-orange in color. A premium quality coin for the given grade and a coin boasting low mintage of 82,000 pieces. The only reason this piece isn't more expensive is that a few were saved at the time of issue as the first year coinage. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,100. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,725
Lot 2135		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-64. Bold and frosty and quite lustrous. Much choicer than average. Pop 1965; 79 finer (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,800 - 3,000. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,105
Lot 2136		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-64. Attractive mint bloom luster. Struck with technical exactness throughout, the Denver Mint's extensive 1909 production makes it the right choice for a U.S. gold type set. Luster is almost always fresh and gleaming; on a naturally toned coin like this piece, the luster has an even better quality, and 1909-D half eagles are noted for their sharp strikes. Pop 1965; 79 finer. (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,800 - 3,000. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $3,105
Lot 2137		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-64. Light original toning. Sharp strike. Pop 1205; 58 finer. Estimated Value $2,800 - 3,000. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $3,105
Lot 2138		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Typical sharp strike and attractive luster for this popular D-mint issue. Old green label holder (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,070
Lot 2139		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Nice and frosty. Production rose at Denver in 1908 but would never equal this level in later years. After 1914, there were to be no more Denver-issued half eagles, only a few struck at Philadelphia and San Francisco before the denomination was abolished in 1933 (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,955
Lot 2140		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Lightly toned with pleasing underlying luster (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,955
Lot 2141		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Pale olive and golden orange toning; one of severy very attractive specimens from which to choose. Often in a sale like this were we offer duplicate examples, some far-sighted buyers will pick up several specimens (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 2142		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Nice orangish-golden mint luster. Again, a choice, attractive Indian head gold coin (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 2143		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Reddish-orange gold color (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,040
Lot 2144		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Nice golden-orange mint color. This well-liked design was by Bela Lyon Pratt, who had his models translated into the actual coins by the chief engraver and his assistants in 1908, the first year of issue (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 2145		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Lightly toned. The almost identical design of an Indian head and eagle motif appears on the quarter eagles also struck between 1908 and 1929. Collectors try to acquire specimens of both denominations (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 2146		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Nice and frosty. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,955
Lot 2147		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Frosty and lightly toned. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2148		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Lightly toned. The most often picked year for including in a gold Type set. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2149		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Untoned. Over the years, Indian $5 gold pieces in choice Mint State have performed well, with increasing activity as the decades pass. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2150		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Rich golden-orange mint color. The unusual design of the Indian $5 makes it a first-pick with many gold buyers. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $1,955
Lot 2151		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Nice and frosty. When these first appeared at banks in 1908, many were caught off guard by the strange new look the mint had chosen. But once they got used to them, their popularity has increased. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2152		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Bright and untoned. The unusual design is termed "recessed relief" by the mint establishment, these aren't "incuse" in the true sense of that word, but instead have normal "relief" design elements. It is just that the entire raised portion of the design is sunk below the field of the coin. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2153		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Frosty. Other countries have since gone with something resembling the Indian $5 gold piece's recessed relief look, but this is the first time on an American coin, and very attractive. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2154		1909-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Bold and frosty. Always popular due to fresh roll quantites of Mint States that were retrieved in the 1950s through the 1980s from bank hoards in Europe. Estimated Value $2,000 - 2,200. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2155		1909-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-62. Attractive golden-orange. Well struck (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,100. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $949
Lot 2156		1909-D (3). PCGS graded all MS-62. Lot of 3 coins (PCGS # 8514) . Estimated Value $2,700 - 2,900. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,990
Lot 2157		1909-O $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-62. Popular key date. The 1909-O is the rarity in the Indian Half Eagle series. Only 34,200 pieces were struck, the smallest mintage in the series. It is also scarce with About Uncirculated pieces very elusive and choice Mint State coins such as this rare to extremely rare. This key issue is both prone to counterfeiting and overgrading, making the acquisition of a certified MS62 a necessity for serious gold specialists. This is a well struck example that has lovely warm golden surfaces. For an MS62, this piece is certainly cleaner than what one might expect, with the only noticeable abrasion being a very shallow hairline in the upper right reverse field. Outstanding quality. Pop 18; 22 finer. (PCGS # 8515) . Estimated Value $32,000 - 35,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $36,800
Lot 2158		1909-O $5 Indian. NGC graded AU-58. Scarce date. Sharply struck on the feathers as well as the ruffled front of the Indian's headdress and the pattern of zigzag dots along the front ribbon band. A bold mintmark to go with the bold design elsewhere. Lustrous. Only 34,200 minted. Pop 244; 107 finer. Estimated Value $9,000 - 10,000. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $11,213
Lot 2159		1910 $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Old green label holder. Frosty and toned with strong relief on the main design elements such as the cascading bonnet feathers at the back of the Indian (PCGS # 8517) . Estimated Value $2,200 - 2,400. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,588
Lot 2160		1910-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-65 P.Q. Well struck with lovely golden toning. A blazing orange gold Gem with increasingly deep highlights toward the lower right of the obverse. A satiny gem of the finest order, and a prize among the finer seen of this Indian head $5 issue. Nicely struck with just outstanding detail on all features of the headdress and eagle. A nice high end coin. Pop 5; 2 in 66; 3 in 67. (PCGS # 8518) . Estimated Value $28,000 - 32,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Unsold
Lot 2161		1911 $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Well struck. Frosty and untoned. When Bela Lyon Pratt's new Indian head motif was launched upon the American waters in 1908, the public was shocked (to put it mildly). Never before in American numismatics had a coin designer broken with tradition in such a overt way as did Pratt. For what Pratt did was to recess the design below the surface of the coin! Estimated Value $2,200 - 2,400. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,530
Lot 2162		1911 $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Lightly toned. A glorious reminder of what money meant in the days of the Gold Standard (1900-1933). Estimated Value $2,200 - 2,400. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,530
Lot 2163		1911 $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Lovely honey color gold and lustrous. Another frosty coin that the collector will love (PCGS # 8520) . Estimated Value $2,200 - 2,400. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,588
Lot 2164		1911-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Bold mint mark. Honey gold in color. Uncommonly smooth for the issue, this frosty textured example displays warm orange-gold surface underneath original "antique" toning. Desirable with this bold strike, only a few of the feather ends show blunt strike detail. 72,500 coins minted Pop 38; 13 finer; 12 in 64; 1 in 65. (PCGS # 8521) . Estimated Value $25,000 - 27,500. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $29,900
Lot 2165		1911-D $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-62. Lovely reddish golden color over both surfaces enhances the beauty all the more. This is a scarce Denver Mint date. After large mintage in 1908 and again in 1909 and 1910, the production switched into low gear for 1911 when only 72,500 coins minted. Scarce in all Mint State grades. Pop 37; 51 finer. (PCGS # 8521) . Estimated Value $7,500 - 8,000. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $14,950
Lot 2166		1911-S $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-64. Well struck and lightly toned. Flattering mint frost that pulsates with yellow-gold to orange-gold color underneath "old gold" patina suggesting long years in a coin collector's cabinet. Pop 18; 8 finer; 7 in 65; 1 in 66. (PCGS # 8522) . Estimated Value $13,000 - 14,000. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $13,915
Lot 2167		1912 $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-61. Toned. Lustrous (PCGS # 8523) . Estimated Value $500 - 550. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $720
Lot 2168		1912-S $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-61. Untoned. Impressively struck on the obverse, the resounding gold tone resonates to the eye. The reverse has the usual blunt mintmark. Choice fields and surfaces. 392,000 coins minted. Pop 55; 65 finer. Estimated Value $800 - 900. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,185
Lot 2169		1913 $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. A choiced golden-orange. Frosty mint example. The somewhat squat-looking eagle had to be shoe-horned into the space provided, whereas on the $10 Indian (by another artist, we should point out), there was more space to "stretch out." Estimated Value $2,200 - 2,400. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,530
Lot 2170		1913 $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Quite lustrous and untoned. Half Eagles and Quarter Eagles were far more aesthetically challenging than the long-running and tired-appearing Liberty heads they replaced in 1908. Unlike his predecessors, Bela Lyon Pratt chose to honor a real American Indian for a change, not some made-up Greek goddess wearing an incongruous Indian headdress. Estimated Value $2,200 - 2,400. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,530
Lot 2171		1914 $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-63. Lovely mint bloom colors. Bright with orange-on-gold somersaulting luster whose radiance on both sides of this cleanly original example must be seen to be appreciated. 247,000 coins minted (PCGS # 8527) . Estimated Value $2,200 - 2,400. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,990
Lot 2172		1914-D $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-65. Deep orange color gold. Both sides put on view the distinctive "look" for this S-mint delivery: smoothly frosted surfaces, rolling cartwheel effects, and boldly struck devices. There is nothing hesitant about this Gem Mint State 65! Moving next to the key areas of sharpness, we can gladly report a highly presentable strike, with boldness to the Indian's features, the war bonnet, and all of the feathers in the eagle's tail, talons, body and wings. 247,000 coins minted. Pop 8; 1 finer in 66. Estimated Value $16,000 - 17,000. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $16,100
Lot 2173		1914-S $5 Indian. SEGS graded MS-63. Untoned and cleaned. Soft satiny luster on light gold surfaces. A touch of weakness is seen at the Indian's lower feathers on the obverse, but here it is probably that the design was spaced where two relatively high points lie opposite each other. Very scarce in Mint condition; scarcer still in 63 quality. Estimated Value $3,000 - 3,200. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 2174		1915 $5 Indian. NGC graded MS-63. Untoned. Around New Year's Day, 1908, Dr. William Sturgis Bigelow, an intimate friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, got the idea of making coins with devices sunk beneath the fields -- not true intaglio, but rather with relief designs depressed so that the highest points would not be at once worn away, somewhat in the manner of certain Egyptian Fourth Dynasty stelae. This handsome $5 Indian coin is the result. Estimated Value $2,200 - 2,400. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos	Realized $2,760
Lot 2175		1915 $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-62 PQ. Premium quality for the grade. Pratt's Native American chieftain model remains unnamed, his tribe unknown. This was simultaneously an "impression emblematic of Liberty" as the Mint Act of 1792 specifies (for after all the Indians were free peoples until white men's laws made them third-class citizens), a compliment to Theodore Roosevelt, and a continuation of a trend begun in 1899 with G. F. C. Smillie's magnificent portrait of Sioux chief Ta-to-ka-inyanka ('Running Antelope') on the $5 silver certificate (PCGS # 8530) . Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,100. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,070
Lot 2176		1915 $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-62. Golden orange luster. Pratt's eagle on this coin was a deliberate bow to Saint-Gaudens's similar standing raptor (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) (PCGS # 8530) . Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,100. The Greenhill Collection. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $1,093
Lot 2177		1915-S $5 Indian. PCGS graded MS-61. Quite nice for the assigned grade. A difficult date to locate in strictly uncirculated condition (PCGS # 8531) . Estimated Value $1,700 - 2,000. View details and enlarged photos Check results on similar lots	Realized $2,703

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