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!"

  US Pattern Transitionals

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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