Lot 2606
1922 Grant Gold Dollar, no star. PCGS graded MS-66 PQ. Nice original toning. Pop 324. Fully pulsating with lovely greenish to yellow-gold color, the surfaces are free of bothersome striking incompleteness (PCGS # 7458) .
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.
Estimated Value $3,500 - 4,000.
|
| |
| Realized $4,140 |
