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New $1.00 Coins Do NOT Have "In God We Trust" Removed. It IS Still There. (2401 hits)

I saw a blog recently about the "In God We Trust" inscription removed from the new $1.00 gold coin. I got an email about this last year and disspelled it then as well. I guess it's important to note that of about 300 million coins, about 50,000 have been estimated to have omitted the inscription, but according to the U.S. Mint, it was not intentional. Read the article here:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17501178/

According to that article, it was not a concerted effort nor was it planned to leave it off. An estimated 50,000 of the 300 MILLION actually minted is practically nothing..

It is NOT true that the intent is to remove the words. Check out this link below. It turns out that the inscription is located on the OUTER EDGE of the coin:

http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/do...

Here's a link showing a picture of the edge-incised motto. It also explains that at SOME point, "In God We Trust" will be put back on either the frong of the back of coin:

http://images.google.com/images?q=Gold+%24...

Blessings...

Posted By: Dee Gray
Monday, March 30th 2009 at 3:38AM
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Good morning, the blog clearly has a reference to te United States Mint in Philadelpia , Pa. Not Snopes or MSNBC news as they are not official government sites. Thank you. WE don't know what the intent is , since lots of coin collectors (numismatists) made money on the initial printing when they sold for over $600.00 a coin. Given that many actions are taken by the Federal Government which are harmful to us,including but not limited to the Tuskegee Study, I don't see why not force them out of circulation. I will return them if I receive one. Glad you took that picture off where you were hiding behind a door or something.
Monday, March 30th 2009 at 11:52AM
Marta Fernandez

I appreciate both your and Marta's perspectives. Thanks for sharing them.
Tuesday, March 31st 2009 at 11:00AM
Dr. S. Maxwell Hines

Okay.

Here's the U.S. Mint website link:

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin...

The initial 50,000 that were mistakenly created and circulated are allegedly it. I'm happy the words remain but I'm not as passionate about its absence as some folk.

I am familiar with the Tuskegee Airmen and what was done to them was horrible (actually worse than horrible), although it hardly compares to removing words off a coin. Yes, "In God We Trust" means something to me, but not the extent that I would refuse the currency for its lack of it. It's money...spendable money...and as currency switches from hand to hand to hand to hand every day, it would hardly behoove me to refuse it for that reason.

"In God We Trust" is great, but having accepted Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior, I can't see myself caring much whether those words remain on the coins or not. The power for me isn't in those words, but in His in Word that I've hid in my heart.

Blessings...

Tuesday, March 31st 2009 at 9:49PM
Dee Gray

I fully agree with you Dee. My love and trust in the Lord does not come from a coin. The love of God is in my heart, and my trust is in the Lord. I do not need a coin to remind me, and with the economy today, that coin does not and never will hold the power that God has.
Friday, April 3rd 2009 at 12:58AM
Cheryl Hendrix

Hey, Cheryl!!! Thanks for chiming in here. I'm glad we're agreed.

Blessings...
Monday, April 6th 2009 at 4:00PM
Dee Gray

New $1.00 Coins Do **NOT** Have "In God We Trust" Removed. It IS Still There. (2401 hits)

New $1.00 Coins Do NOT Have "In God We Trust" Removed. It IS Still There. (2401 hits)