Lot 2080
1922 Grant Dollar, No Star. PCGS graded MS-66. CAC Approved. A hint of gold toning. Struck with controlled precision throughout including President Grant’s beard and hair waves. Flattering mint frost that pulsates with yellow-gold to orange-gold color. Destined for a fine set of Commemorative Gold coins.
Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War general and later president, died in 1885. His birth in 1822 is commemorated here by the artist Laura Gardin Fraser after a photograph by the famed Civil War photographer, Matthew Brady. Grant was born in a traditional frame house of the period, but this has come down to us as a "log cabin." The house depicted is correct. Some consider Grant as our worst president because of the scandals which rocked his administration; perhaps he should more charitably be described as a soft touch for his scheming "friends." Two Half Dollar Commemoratives and two Gold Dollars were struck, one of each with or without star before Grant's bust (PCGS # 7458) .
Estimated Value $2,300 - 2,400.
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