US Gold Coins: $10 Eagle Auctions
United States Mint introduced The Eagle ($10 US Gold Coins) as a base-unit of denomination issued specially for gold coinage only (the eagle was the base-unit of denomination in gold) and the eagle was the largest of the four main decimal base-units of
denomination (the cent, the dime, the dollar, and the eagle, where a dime is 10 cents, a dollar is 10 dimes, and an eagle is 10 dollars) used for circulating coinage in the United States prior to
1933, the year when gold was withdrawn from circulation.
The eagles were issued from 1795 to 1933 has the diameter of 27 mm. Originally the purity of all circulating gold coins in the United States was 22 karats (11 parts gold to 1 part alloy) and weighs 270 troy grains (17.5 g). Most of auctions for ten dollar eagle gold coins feature Indian head and liberty head (Coronet head) coins.
