1846 $10 (1846 Eagle) PCGS AU53. Bright mint luster is seen within the devices of this low mintage, rare 1846 Eagle. The strike is above average with most of stars centers, highest points of hair, eagles neck, and lower part of shield full and sharp. The dentils are strong on both sides. Sufficient separation among the lines of Libertys hair is found to warrant the grade.

Between 1805, when President Thomas Jefferson ordered mintage of gold eagles stopped, and 1837 no gold eagles were made. Coinage was of this denomination was resumed with Christian Gobrechts Coronet Eagle Liberty Head No Motto. The size, weight, and fineness were reduced so that the new Coronet coins were not intrinsically worth more than their denominated value.

The Coronet Eagle Liberty Head No Motto shows Liberty facing left wearing a LIBERTY inscribed coronet with her hair tied in the back in beads. Two long curls hang down her neck, one in the back and the other on the side. She is surrounded with thirteen six-pointed stars. The date is below the truncation, which shows no drapery. The motif is taken from a Benjamin West painting of Venus. It was also used with modifications for the Large Cents of 1839. The reverse shows a heraldic eagle with outstretched wing looking to the left. On its chest is the Union shield. In its talons it holds the olive branch and arrows.

The error in the previous issue, Scots eagle held the arrows and the olive branches in the wrong talons, is corrected. Except for the tips of the eagles wings UNITED STATES OF AMERICA surrounds the reverse, separated from the denomination TEN D. by dots. Dentils are near the edge on both sides of the coin, and the edge is reeded.
In its population report, PCGS shows 4 coins certified in MS62 with 7 better.