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.
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| Realized $2,760 |
