The venture was financed by the minting of 10,000 gold dollars (depicted below) and 250,000 half dollars. The coins were minted and issued in 1922, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Grant's birth.[667][668] Grant has also appeared on several U.S. postage stamps, the first one issued in 1890, five years after his death.[669]
On June 19, 2020, Juneteenth protesters[670] toppled a bronze bust, U. S. Grant (1896), at Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.[671][672][bl] Grant had briefly owned one slave, whom he set free. Grant's statue bust will unlikely return to Golden Gate Park.[670]

Grant has appeared on the United States fifty-dollar bill since 1913.  See also:1913 issueThe 1922 one-dollar gold piece of the Grant Memorial coinage issued on the 100th anniversary of his birth. 