The E-Sylum:  Volume 10, Number 10, March 11, 2007, Article 19

DOLLAR COIN MOTTO STILL GENERATING COMMENT

Citizens in Rochester, NY responded to a reporter's questions this
week about the new Presidential dollar coin:

"The new $1 Presidential coin is creating some controversy. It's not
over the design, although some people say the artwork of George Washington
could be better. It's about the words "In God We Trust." Where did they
go? That famous inscription is on the side or edge of the new coin.
The phrase is so small that you may have to use a magnifying glass to
see it.

"'I'm offended by where it is,' said Sylvia Pollard of Webster. The
86-year-old great-grandmother is starting a petition drive to get
the words 'In God We Trust' back on the face of America's new dollar coin.

"The nation's first coin to bear the words 'In God We Trust' was the
now obsolete two-cent coin first issued in 1864. There was such public
outcry after the carnage during the early battles of the Civil War that
the Secretary of the Treasury agreed. 'The trust of people in God should
be declared on the nation's coins.'

"Dick Austin owns the Gallery of Coins in Henrietta, 'It makes it very
difficult for the average collector to see what the date of the coin is
and the mint mark is of the coin. I really believe they should have put
the date and legend on the front or the back of the coin so it would
make it much easier.'

"Sylvia Pollard has even written a protest letter to the director of
the U.S. Mint and in the corner of her letter she wrote the words 'In
God We Trust.'

"What is even more shocking to some is the one word that is missing
from this new coin. It's the word that's been on all U.S. coins since
the very beginning. Liberty."

[The coin's reverse features the Statue of Liberty, which was deemed
by the sponsors of the enabling legislation to satisfy the requirement
without the actual word "Liberty".  -Editor]

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  Wayne Homren, Editor

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