Lot 2970
1922 Grant Half Dollar, with star. PCGS graded MS-64. A very choice untoned example of this key issue, this coin was struck during 1922 as a centenary souvenir of Ulysses S. Grant's birth. A star that appeared on the first issues was later removed, creating a second (more common) variety. The star has no other significance than to boost sales. The reverse shows the frame house in Point Pleasant, Ohio, where Grant was born in 1822.
(The log cabin label was affixed to this design by Andrew W. Mellon, then Secretary of the Treasury, who so described it in his annual report for fiscal 1922. As Slabaugh has pointed out, Mellon confused this frame house with a log cabin Grant built over 30 years later on his wife's farm near St. Louis.) (PCGS # 9307) .
Estimated Value $1,400 - 1,500.
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| Realized $1,553 |
