Whats the best place for In God We Trust on coins?
GRAND RAPIDS — An e-mail spreading an urban myth about those shiny, new dollar coins might be better circulated than the coins themselves. Since The Press published a story Thursday about plans to test its marketing of the Andrew Jackson coin in Grand Rapids, several readers have written to object to what they thought was the coin’s omission of the motto “In God We Trust.” Their concerns originated with an e-mail they received urging a boycott of the so-called “Godless dollars.” Trouble is, God is on those golden dollars, but not where many people think to look. God is on the edge. In what was billed as an innovation that would improve the look of the coins while further differentiating them from quarters, Congress and the U.S. Mint decided to stamp the phrase on the edge of the coins along with the year they were minted and “E Pluribus Unum” (translation: “Out of Many, One”).
