1929-P Indian Head Quarter Eagle
Key dateThe last Indian Head quarter eagle. Production stopped with the Depression, and gold coin was recalled four years later under Executive Order 6102, so a share of this issue was melted without ever circulating.
Mintage
- Business strikes
- 532,000
- Mint
- Philadelphia (no mintmark)
- Mintage rank
- 9 of 15
Rank 1 is the lowest business-strike mintage in the series. Mintage is what the Mint produced, not what survives. Gold coin was recalled in 1933 under Executive Order 6102 and the Treasury melted much of what it held, so survival across this series runs well below the figures below.
Reading the figure
Among the 12 Philadelphia issues in the series it is the 7th smallest. It is the only issue of the series struck in 1929. In 1929 the coin was struck at Philadelphia; Denver struck none.
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 Sep 9, 2026What certified 1929-P Indian Head quarter 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$831
Median of 40 sales
- Lowest
- $600
- Highest
- $6,496
The 4 most recent sales
- $1,100NGC MS64 · Sep 9, 20261929 NGC MS64 Gold $2.5 Indian Head Quarter Eagle US Mint 4.18 Grams .9 Fineness
- $6,496PCGS MS65 · Sep 9, 20261929 $2.50 Indian Head Gold Quarter Eagle MS65 PCGS *9609
- $949PCGS MS64 · Sep 4, 20261929 PCGS MS64 “CAC” $2.50 Indian Head Gold Quarter Eagle - Wow Coin No Reserve
- $700PCGS MS62 · Sep 3, 20261929 MS62 Indian Head Quarter Eagle $2.50 Gold Coin PCGS
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.
Every issue here is labelled a key date, which tells you nothing. Every issue in this series is labelled a key date, and that tells you nothing. 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 1929-P 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 1929-P for sale
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Common questions
How many 1929-P Indian Head quarter eagles were minted?
The Philadelphia Mint struck 532,000 1929-P Indian Head quarter eagles for circulation. That is the 9th lowest business-strike mintage of the 15 date and mintmark combinations in the series.
Is the 1929-P Indian Head quarter 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. The last Indian Head quarter eagle. Production stopped with the Depression, and gold coin was recalled four years later under Executive Order 6102, so a share of this issue was melted without ever circulating.
What should I check before buying a 1929-P Indian Head quarter 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.
- CoinMintages.com, Indian Head quarter eagle mintages — Business strikes and proofs listed separately. Used as the business-strike figures here.
- USA Coin Book, Indian Head quarter eagle — Independent table. Agrees on every Denver issue; its Philadelphia figures add that year's proofs into the total.
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