TRANSITIONAL "IN GOD WE TRUST" PATTERN Público Deposited
The E-Sylum: Volume 7, Number 10, March 7, 2004, Article 7
TRANSITIONAL "IN GOD WE TRUST" PATTERN
Speaking of the "In God We Trust" patterns,
Saul Teichman sent us a link to a new page on the
uspatterns.com web site discussing "a newly-discovered
overdate quarter which may shed light on "In God We
Trust" transitional pattern question.""The discovery of an 1865 pattern quarter struck over an
1850-O quarter may shed light on a series of pattern coins
where the actual date of striking has long been a question.
This is the series of Civil War era coins related to the
adoption of the motto "In God We Trust". As for regular
issue coins, the motto first appeared on the 1864 Two Cent
piece, and then was adopted on the regular Quarter, Half
Dollar, Dollar, Half Eagle, Eagle, and Double Eagle
denominations in 1866. However pattern coins with "In God
We Trust" actually were struck on 1863 dated Two Cent
pieces, 1863, 1864, and 1865 dated Quarter, Half, and
Dollar denominations, and on 1865 dated Half Eagles,
Eagles, and Double Eagles in copper. These coins are called
"Transitionals" as they are made/dated in years before they
were adopted for regular coinage.""...in 1977 one of these 1865 transitionals, an 1865 "In God
We Trust" Dollar (listed as Judd no. 434 in one of the
standard pattern references, United States Pattern,
Experimental and Trial Pieces by J. Hewitt Judd) appeared
in the Fairfield Collection sale. The cataloguer, Bowers &
Ruddy, noted that the coin was over struck on an 1866 dollar!"- 2004-03-07
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