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Recently Minted Dollar Coins Missing ‘In God We Trust’

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Posted on Mar 7, 2007
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A large group of “godless” George Washington dollar coins stamped without the traditional “In God We Trust” and “E Pluribus Unum” inscriptions made it into circulation and have been popping up on eBay.

Associated Press via cbsnews.com:
An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including “In God We Trust,” and made it past inspectors and into circulation, the U.S. Mint said Wednesday.

The properly struck dollar coins, bearing the likeness of George Washington, are inscribed along the edge with “In God We Trust,” “E Pluribus Unum” and the year and mint mark. They went into circulation Feb. 15.

The mint struck 300 million of the coins, which are golden in color and slightly larger and thicker than a quarter.

About half were made in Philadelphia and the rest in Denver. So far the mint has only received reports of error coins coming from Philadelphia, mint spokeswoman Becky Bailey said.

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By Heather, April 7, 2007 at 2:46 pm Link to this comment
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Do some research “In God We Trust” is on the new coin but on the side.

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By Michael Clark, March 24, 2007 at 1:30 pm Link to this comment
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We took any acknowledgement of God out of our schools, by taking “In God We Trust” off our coins we should receive the same results in our economy as we did our schools “Chaos”

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By Michael Clark, March 24, 2007 at 1:24 pm Link to this comment
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We took any acknowledgement of God out of the schools,by taking “In God we trust” off the coins
we should receive the same results in our economy
as we did in our schools, chaos.

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By Bert, March 8, 2007 at 10:26 am Link to this comment
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The other side still reads:“All Other Pay Cash”

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By 127001, March 8, 2007 at 4:43 am Link to this comment
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Oh my gosh! I wonder if the cops will arrest someone who will try to spend it? Jail4Judges recently posted an article about a guy who tried to pay for some gas with a 1 oz. fine Silver round (a Liberty round) (like, the REAL thing).

Even though the clerk confirmed it was real, and didn’t complain, he got hauled into jail by the cops, and now faces a Class E felony charge (“criminal simulation”? or something like that).

See the post by Jail4Judges at:

http://www.civilgideon.com/portal/index.php/site/article/when_real_is_false_and_false_is_real/

It’s crazy. And now they have all these coins floating around. How many clerks or tellers WILL decide they are false and people have to deal with one more hassle.

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By Nick Narcota, March 8, 2007 at 2:22 am Link to this comment
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i say leave “in god we trust” on the damn money, we worship that shit anyway

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By Pat Gannon, March 7, 2007 at 10:03 pm Link to this comment
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As hypocritical as we as a nation are (especially the religious right) it may be a step in the right direction to NOT have “In God We Trust” on our money. Even the holier-than-thous among us have shown that materialism and especially money is much more worthy of their trust and time and endeavors than anything spiritual. The direction that we as a society seems headed in certainly isn’t a result of our trust in anything profound or sublime let alone principled or of the common good. I think Cheney’s visage on the next coin with “Fuck You, I Got Mine” inscribed under it would be far more appropriate.

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By Mad As Hell, March 7, 2007 at 9:54 pm Link to this comment
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“In God We Trust” does not belong on our money for 2 reasons:
1) Obviously, it is an endorsement of religion—several billion people on Earth (and millions of them are Americans) do not believe in a single god—from Native Americans, to Hindus, Buddhists, et al. Also, for Agnostics and Atheists this is jamming a state religion down their throats. It CLEARLY and OBVIOUSLY violates the 1st Amendment and the Establishment Clause of the Constitution.  Yet jingo-religionists want those “inconvenient” parts of the Constitution ignored—like it was an a la carte menu.

2) I believe devout religious people should be against it being on the money as well. It’s not MY logic, but the logic of one of the two greatest Republican Presidents we have ever had—Theodore Roosevelt.  TR, who was an EXTREMELY religious man, led the campaign to have ALL the money redesigned (and those redesigns were the most BEAUTIFUL coins we have ever had).  He reasoning was that it was SACRILEGIOUS to put God’s name on a thing of Mammon—Money.  By doing so, TR believed we were taking God’s name in vain, going against the 10 Commandments, and the teachings of Jesus as well.

How come NONE of the so-called “religious” ever notice that?

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By Dennis D, March 7, 2007 at 9:34 pm Link to this comment
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I guess that’s the only way left to increase the value of the dollar. How many government inspectors does it take to inspect a coin? NONE - a government inspector is an oxymoron.

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By erik, March 7, 2007 at 9:05 pm Link to this comment
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Where would be a good place to look for these besides eBay?

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By Jim Goodson, March 7, 2007 at 7:19 pm Link to this comment
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What do you expect? Our government has not had God in it for the last six years.

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By Stan, March 7, 2007 at 7:07 pm Link to this comment
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Exactly who do you trust now that God no longer speaks to the President?

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By Jim, March 7, 2007 at 6:42 pm Link to this comment
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Oh, because of a mistake. For a second there I thought someone had come to their senses.

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By Quy Tran, March 7, 2007 at 6:27 pm Link to this comment
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No longer “In God We Trust” but “In Business We Trust”.

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By Maezeppa, March 7, 2007 at 4:56 pm Link to this comment
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Correction:  newly-minted coins lack the superfluity of “In God We Trust”.

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By Christopher Robin, March 7, 2007 at 4:38 pm Link to this comment
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This coin looks like the cheap chocolates wrapped in gold foil to resemble a coin.

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