Mint releases more 'godless' dollars

[mcscajun]

Oh, the freepers' heads are going to explode again. Until, of course, they realize there's $$$ in them thar "godless dollars". :rofl:

Still, I expect the crazy e-mails any day now.

It looks like the U.S. Mint has struck again — or not struck again, depending on how you look at it. New dollar coins featuring John Adams are missing edge inscriptions including "In God We Trust," according to the Professional Coin Grading Service, a rare coin authentication company based in Newport Beach, Calif.

The company said people have found hundreds of Adams dollar coins without the edge lettering, repeating a previous mistake. In March, an unknown number of George Washington dollar coins were struck at the Philadelphia Mint without "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum," and the year and mint mark inscribed on the edge.

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But a Detroit collector received smooth-edged Adams dollars in sealed containers from the Philadelphia Mint. There also are reports of the opposite problem — Adams coins with edge lettering that has been double-struck, said Ron Guth, president of the Professional Coin Grading Service.

"It's too early to put a final price tag on the collector value of Adams presidential dollar errors because no one knows how many others will turn up," Guth said in a news release.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070619/ap_on_re_us/godless_dollars_2

[benld74]

1. OH NO!!

Godless Communists!
Godless Muslims!!
and now Godless dollars!
WE ARE DOOMED

[C_U_L8R]

2. Maybe god doesn't want his name on dollars

or maybe it's god's way of saying he doesn't exist... or something... errr

[mcscajun]

3. Or the dollar doesn't "exist"

which is pretty close, I'd say.

[C_U_L8R]

5. That too !

[rpannier]

6. Maybe God opposes the minting of dollar coins

I'll have to check my Bible.
I'm sure there's some passage about icons or minting coins or something.

Maybe it's in Leviticus..."It shalleth be an abomination in the eyes of God to mint low value coinage with thine name scribed in a langauge that was invented by militaristic pagans who eventually come to recognize Me as the almighty. Do not take this vile coinage into thine hand, pocket, purse or glove if it haseth my name anywhere on it-eth."

[stevedeshazer]

4. I suspect that John Adams, a deist, would be happy with this current development

:)

[mcscajun]

7. True; he might even be happy with his image on a coin.

He had quite an ego. :)