What sets the $2.5 and $5 Indian Head gold coins apart from other 
	
	
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		<st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> coins is that they were the first (and only) 
	
	
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		<st1:place>U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> gold coins to use the technique known as incuse relief. This technique gives the design elements and lettering a sunken-in appearance on a uniformly flat plane Sculptor Bela Lyon Pratt was recommended to President Theodore Roosevelt by his good friend Dr. William S. Bigelow to design the $2.50 and $5.00 Indian Head Gold coins. 
	
	
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Obverse: pictures an Indian Chief, the first true American Indian ever to appear on 
	
	
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		<st1:place>United States</st1:place></st1:country-region> coinage. Previously, Caucasian models dressed in American Indian attire were used. The chief on the Indian Head is wearing a full-feathered headdress with the word ' 
	
	
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		<st1:place>Liberty</st1:place></st1:city>' inscribed on the headband. A border of thirteen stars and the minting date encircle him. 
	
	
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Reverse: of the $2.50 coin features a proud bald eagle standing among olive branches, surrounded by the words ' 
	
	
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		<st1:place>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</st1:place></st1:country-region>'. The motto 'In God We Trust', and the denomination also appear on the reverse.

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