*Please read this entire blog if you start, there is important info. at the end!*
I’m sure many of you have received an email that is being forwarded around right now……it looks something like this;
“REFUSE NEW COINS
This simple action will make a strong statement. Please help do this…Refuse to accept these when they are handed to you. I received one from the Post Office as change and I asked for a dollar bill instead. The lady just smiled and said ‘way to go’, so she had read this e-mail. 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. Please send to all on your mailing list!!! “
This is completely ERRONEOUS information!! “In God We Trust” is written along the outside edge of the coins….here’s what I copied off of the US Mint’s website…
“The Presidential $1 Coins
The United States is honoring our Nation’s Presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served. The United States Mint issues four Presidential $1 Coins per year, with Presidents Monroe, Adams, Jackson, and Van Buren being honored in 2008. Each coin has a common reverse design featuring a striking rendition of the Statue of Liberty. These coins feature larger, more dramatic artwork, as well as edge-incused inscriptionsof the year of minting or issuance, “E Pluribus Unum,” “In God We Trust” and the mint mark. Although the size, weight and metal composition of the new Presidential $1 Coin are identical to that of the Sacagawea Golden Dollar, there are several unique features that make this coin distinctive.”
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, research things before you “send to all” on your mailing list!! We need to be informed if people are going to listen to our message, and we need people to listen if we are truly going to make a difference!!!
Andrew Said:
on September 27, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Girl, when I saw this I thought ” Oh no, Not Jessica to.” Thanks for being one to catch the facts. I have known this for a while to, yet I keep getting these emails. If In God We Trust were truly removed, then let’s have a fit. But when it’s not and we say it is. Come on now. You’re right. We have to be informed. Just another example of Christians preaching about something they heard and didn’t study for themselves.