1922 $1 Grant - with Star

Mintage: 5,016
Designer: Laura Gardin Fraser

This souvenir gold commemorative is one of two varieties of 1922 Grant $1 Gold Commemorative. On February 22, 1922, legislation was passed which provided "That for the purpose of aiding and deferring the cost of erecting a community building in the village of Georgetown, Ohio, and a like building in the village of Bethel, Ohio, as a memorial to Ulysses S. Grant, late president of the United States, and for the purpose of constructing a highway five miles in length to be known as the Grant Memorial Road, there shall be a coin minted in the mints of the United States." The buildings and highway were never constructed. The obverse of the coin depicted the bust of the Grant in a military uniform, facing right, and on the reverse was shown the president's boyhood home, a frame dwelling in Point Pleasant, Ohio. The purpose of the star was to create a variety for collectors. It had no other meaning or connection with Grants life.