March 8th, 2007, 02:08 AM
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Dont tell any of the atheists, cause they will try to buy them all up for their collections, but an unknown number of the freshly minted "Presidential dollar coins" lack the "in god we trust" mottto on the edge of the coin: Quote:
PHILADELPHIA - An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are fetching around $50 apiece online.
The properly struck dollar coins, bearing the likeness of the nation's first president, are inscribed along the edge with "In God We Trust," "E Pluribus Unum" and the year and mint mark. They made it past inspectors and went into circulation Feb. 15.
The U.S. Mint struck 300 million of the coins, which are golden in color and slightly larger and thicker than a quarter.
| They are already on Ebay selling at about $100(Please dont go buy any of these -they are already horribly overpriced, I just posted the link so people can get a good look at the coin), but experts say that there may be several millions of this mis-strike out there so if you decide to pick one up realize that the price will probably settle down to about $25-50 each.
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