1908-P With Motto Indian Head Eagle
Key dateStruck after Congress required IN GOD WE TRUST to be restored, partway through 1908.
Mintage
- Business strikes
- 341,370
- Mint
- Philadelphia (no mintmark)
- Mintage rank
- 22 of 32
- Proofs struck
- 116
Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Mintage is a poor guide to availability in this series. Eagles were held as reserves rather than spent, Executive Order 6102 recalled gold coin in 1933, and the Treasury melted most of what it held. The 1920-S and the issues of the early 1930s were hit hardest because they had barely circulated. Read the mintage as what was made, never as what exists.
Reading the figure
Among the 14 Philadelphia issues in the series it is the 8th smallest. Of the 1,481,220 struck across all mints in 1908, this issue accounts for 23%. Denver struck 2.5 times as many that year. The 1908 split ran Denver 836,500, Philadelphia 341,370, Denver 210,000, San Francisco 59,850 and Philadelphia 33,500. Series-wide output rose sharply that year: 1,481,220 against 239,906 in 1907.
Every sentence above is computed from the mintage table on this page, not asserted separately.
Scarcity tier
Key date
Assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 is a key date, under 2,500,000 is a semi-key.
This is a reproducible label derived from the mintage column, not a market valuation and not a Coin Curator price opinion. The same thresholds apply to every series on this site. Several dates are far harder or far easier to obtain than their mintage implies; where that is true, it is stated above.
Recent sold prices
Last checked Sep 14, 2026 · most recent sale Aug 30, 2026What certified 1908-P With Motto Indian Head eagles actually sold for on eBay in the last 90 days, grouped by grade band. Every figure below is a completed sale of a PCGS, NGC or ANACS coin in a straight grade. This is a record of what changed hands, not a price guide, an appraisal, or a prediction of what yours is worth.
Mint State
MS60 and above$2,663
Median of 4 sales
- Lowest
- $2,370
- Highest
- $3,050
The 4 most recent sales
- $2,945NGC MS63 · Aug 30, 20261908 MOTTO Indian Gold $10 Eagle Coin - NGC graded MS63 - free shipping!!!
- $2,370NGC MS62 · Aug 24, 20261908 $10 Gold Eagle Indian NGC MS 62 Very Difficult Date With Motto
- $2,380PCGS MS63 · Jul 5, 20261908 $10 Gold Indian Eagle PCGS MS63 w/ Motto
- $3,050NGC MS61 · Jun 22, 20261908 P $10 Indian Head Gold Eagle Motto, NGC MS 61, Low Mintage Better Date
Seller titles, verbatim. An ended eBay listing stays readable for about 90 days, so older links will expire.
How to read these
- The median is the middle sale after removing outliers. The range is every sale kept, including the outliers, so you can see how wide the market actually is.
- Grade drives most of the difference. A band with three sales tells you far less than a band with thirty, and the count is shown so you can weigh it.
- Sales of coins in “Details”, “Genuine” or cleaned holders are excluded, as are proofs, replicas, lots, and mounted coins. Those sell at prices that would not describe the coin on this page.
- So is any sale priced below what this same date fetches in a lower grade, which is impossible for a real coin and is how a counterfeit in a convincing holder gives itself away.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and holds no licensed price guide or population data. How this data is collected.
One widely printed figure in this series is not a mintage. Both published mintage tables consulted for this series print 50 for the 1907 Rolled Edge. Read the full note on the series page.
What to check before buying
Nothing about this date calls for a check beyond the ones that apply to any certified coin.
And for any certified coin
Verify the certification number on the grading service’s own lookup rather than from a photograph of the label, match the listing images to the certification record including grade and any variety attribution, look for cleaning, compare the mintmark against published photographs of the genuine issue, and read the return policy before buying. The grading guide covers each of these in full.
Coin Curator does not grade, authenticate, or appraise coins, and holds no licensed price guide or population data. Where this page shows recent sold prices, they are records of completed eBay sales, not a valuation of any particular coin. These are verification steps, not an appraisal.
Verify a certification number
Look a 1908-P With Motto certification number up on the service’s own site. A photograph of a label proves nothing.
Each service publishes its own guarantee with conditions and exclusions. Compare PCGS, NGC and ANACS.
Find a 1908-P With Motto for sale
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Common questions
How many 1908-P With Motto Indian Head eagles were minted?
The Philadelphia Mint struck 341,370 1908-P With Motto Indian Head eagles for circulation. That is the 22nd lowest business-strike mintage of the 32 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1908-P With Motto Indian Head eagle a key date?
Coin Curator labels it a key date, assigned from reported mintage alone: under 750,000 struck is a key date and under 2,500,000 is a semi-key. The same thresholds are used for every series on this site, so the tiers are comparable between them. That label describes production, not market value or how hard the coin is to find today. Struck after Congress required IN GOD WE TRUST to be restored, partway through 1908.
What should I check before buying a 1908-P With Motto Indian Head eagle?
Verify the certification number on the grading service's own lookup page, match the listing photographs to the certification record, check for cleaning, and compare the mintmark shape and position against published photographs of the genuine issue.
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1 min readMintage sources
Mintage figures are U.S. Mint production records, cross-checked against the published tables below on 2026-08-02. Where those tables disagree, the disagreement is disclosed on the affected page rather than resolved silently.
- Wikipedia, "Indian Head eagle" — Mintage table reporting business strikes separately from proofs. Used for the business-strike figures here. Its 1907 table omits the Wire Rim and prints a survival estimate for the Rolled Edge.
- USA Coin Book, Indian Head eagle — Independent table listing the 1907 varieties. Its Philadelphia figures add that year's proofs into the business-strike total.
- CoinWeek, 1907 Indian Head eagle No Motto With Periods — Consulted for the 1907 varieties, and the source establishing that the figures the tables print for them are survival counts rather than production records.
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