It would be a stretch to call the "Godless" dollars "rare," but they are uncommon. Soon a clever reporter began calling coins with missing inscriptions "Godless dollars," and the term has stuck.įar from boycotting the coins, however, collectors bid up the price of the "Godless dollars" precisely because they are mistakes and, therefore, relatively scarce. But a few months later, the same errors showed up on some additional coins honoring the second president, John Adams. The first mistakes affected only coins honoring the first president, George Washington. The Mint issued a statement on March 7, 2007, saying that "an unspecified quantity of these coins inadvertently left the United States Mint at Philadelphia without edge-lettering on them." It added, "As we adjust this new process, we intend to eliminate any such defects." But this was caused by errors at the Philadelphia Mint, she reported, not because of any government policy. 15, 2007, and less than a week later a coin-collecting expert, Susan Headly, reported on her blog that "thousands" of the coins had appeared in Florida with no edge lettering. The first presidential coins went into circulation Feb. Some of the language in that message is identical to language in several messages that readers have sent to us in recent weeks.Īlthough there is no truth to the notion that Washington has ordered God off the new coins, thousands of them have indeed appeared without the intended inscription due to errors by the Mint. The urban-myth-busting site collected one such e-mail in February 2007 that lamented, "Here’s another way of phasing God out of America," and that called for a boycott. Nevertheless, that point was missed by some, and erroneous e-mail messages began circulating almost immediately. 25, 2007, said: "For the first time since the 1930s, coin inscriptions such as ‘E Pluribus Unum’ and ‘In God We Trust’ will be prominently inscribed on the edge of the coins." Mint pointed out the unusual placement of the inscription when it began promoting the first of the coins in a publicity tour in early 2007.
The Presidential $1 Coin Act of 2005 states: "The inscription of the year of minting or issuance of the coin and the inscriptions ‘E Pluribus Unum’ and ‘In God We Trust’ shall be edge-incused into the coin." The measure was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and with an overwhelming majority in the House, and quietly signed into law by President Bush on Dec. In fact, on all but a relative few of the coins (which were products of manufacturing errors), the words "In God We Trust" are stamped right where Congress ordered them to be, on the edge of the coin rather than on the usual location. The claim isn’t true, however, as the authors of these anonymous messages could easily have discovered simply by looking at one or two coins, or by visiting the Web site of the U.S. This version shouts in capital letters: " ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’ IS GONE!!" The e-mails called for a boycott of the new coins. Mint issued the first presidential dollar coin in 2007. Please send to all on your mailing list!!Įarlier versions of this chain e-mail were flying around shortly after the U.S. Please help out…our world is in enough trouble without this too!!!!! U.S.Government to Release New Dollar Coins You guessed it ‘IN GOD WE TRUST’ IS GONE!!! If ever there was a reason to boycott something, THIS IS IT!!!! DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW DOLLAR COINS AS CHANGE Together we can force them out of circulation. The lady just smiled and said ‘way to go’, so she had read this e -mail. I received one from the Post Office as change and I asked for a dollar bill instead.
Refuse to accept these when they are handed to you. This simple action will make a strong statement. I’ll do this, hope you all will? REFUSE NEW COINS Please check the accuracy of this e-mail. Q: Did the government issue new dollar coins without the words "In God We Trust"?Ī: Congress ordered the words to be stamped on the edges of the coins, but an unknown number of "Godless dollars" were produced by mistake.
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