Owner Comments:
Satisfies the 1910s decade, the $5 Indian type, and pairs perfectly with its $2.5 1925-D Indian "younger brother."
In February 2023, the coin's holder was edge-tapped to realign the coin's rotation within the prongs to match the way the coin looked when first received back in December 2014. New iPhone SE photos were then taken and uploaded.
The coin's obverse photo in the holder is gorgeous: sharp focus with wonderful lighting-tilt to bring out fine detail and its true gold color.
And a unique optical illusion was captured in the Indian’s gaze:
The angular eyebrow has extending across the bottom of it a darkish line (like a minute hand at 9:30) that tricks you into mistaking it for a squinting eye, thereby lending the appearance of a stern resolve to the portrait as the line continues all the way to the bridge of the nose. However, when you zoom in further the actual eye comes into focus and it details a kind, compassionate eye. The two aspects, together, bring to the Indian chieftain a leadership comportment that is very rare to capture in a single photo.
Finally, the holder’s NGC security banner is displayed in light blue and beige colors, softening the holder’s framing, and the dark-emerald appearance of the CAC “bean” is angled so that it displays itself as many repeating, smaller CAC glyphs, with nary a trace of the typical, large, central blue, CAC logo.
Everything taken together makes this one of my favorite NGC Registry coins to view.