Ulysses S. Grant Commemoratives
The
centennial of the birth of Ulysses S. Grant - Union general and president of the
United States - is commemorated on both a silver half dollar and gold dollar
struck in
1922 with the same basic designs, but two versions of each.
The coin was designed by sculptor Laura Gardin Fraser. The obverse features a bust
facing right of the stoic Grant. The reverse depicts a fenced clapboard house symbolic of
Grant's boyhood home in Georgetown, Ohio.
The
first half dollars and gold dollars struck at the Philadelphia Mint carry a five-pointed
star on the obverse, just above the inscription
