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Description
The $2.50 Indian Head Gold Quarter Eagle is a U.S. gold coin of .900 fine gold, struck from 1908 to 1915 and again from 1925 to 1929; dates vary. Boston sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt designed it at the request of William Sturgis Bigelow, a friend of Theodore Roosevelt, and set the design incuse, recessed into the surface rather than raised, a feature it shares only with the matching half eagle in American coinage. The obverse shows a Native American man in a headdress facing left, and the reverse a standing eagle on a bundle of arrows, an olive branch in its left talon. Small but bold in concept, it is a classic piece of early twentieth-century American gold.
