1909 $5 MS65 认证号11183502, PCGS号8513

1909 Indian Half Eagle MS65 { PCGS-3 } Ex: Jim O'Neal (Sep'2007) Truly superb natural tone-free wheat-gold color and powerful luster with very nice surfaces and minimal marks. Indian and eagle details are incredibly well struck. By 1909, any novelty value that the Indian Head half eagle design once had was gone. Yet production went up compared to 1908, with 627,060 pieces struck, while the actual domestic commercial use for the coins was flat on the East Coast. Thus, many examples stayed in bank vaults or were shipped overseas, and today, the 1909 ranks as one of the most available issues in MS65, though it is not the most common.

David Akers (1975/88)

The 1909 is clearly not one of the major rarities of the series but it is certainly very difficult to locate in MS-64 or higher grade. Below that level specimens can be located with relatively little searching. Thrue gems are very rare, maybe two dozen existing in all, and superb quality examples (better than MS-65) are exceptionally rare and, for all practical purposes, unobtainable. They do exist, however.

The 1909 is usually well struck with good to very good lustre. Most specimens are of the "soft" frosty surface type, but some satiny examples do exist that are remarkably similar to the Proofs in general appearance. Color on this issue is wide ranging. There are beautiful greenish orange specimens (always the "soft" frosty type) and bright yellow gold ones (usually, but not always, the satiny type).