10 Dollars "Indian Head" · “Indian Head”

The Indian Head Eagle: a Liberty in a war bonnet, and a president's 'pet crime'

In 1904 a sitting president called America's money "artistically of atrocious hideousness" — and decided to fix it himself. The $10 Indian Head eagle is what that decision produced: a dying sculptor's final work, a Liberty wearing a Native American headdress, and a coin whose last year almost no one was ever allowed to keep.