re: #225 Fozzie Bear

I spend it, and understand that the idiots in the 50’s who had that added are just harmless idiots.

1864 actually. The ‘idiots’ were the Secretary of the Treasury Salmon P. Chase and Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville. Pennsylvania.

…The Congress passed the Act of April 22, 1864. This legislation changed the composition of the one-cent coin and authorized the minting of the two-cent coin. The Mint Director was directed to develop the designs for these coins for final approval of the Secretary. IN GOD WE TRUST first appeared on the 1864 two-cent coin.
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