{"id":109614,"date":"2017-12-09T14:31:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T10:53:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T10:53:45","slug":"us-congress-authorised-two-cent-coin-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/09\/us-congress-authorised-two-cent-coin-3\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Congress authorised two-cent coin, 1864"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-body entry-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_FN98eHvI0Yg\/SA3tx5wWQpI\/AAAAAAAAAgI\/yUWEYihgYJk\/s1600-h\/1864_two_cents_obv.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192067387001029266\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1864_two_cents_obv.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-109615\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; height: 136px; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; width: 136px;\" \/><\/a>On  22nd April 1864 the U.S. Congress passed an Act to authorise the  issuance of a two-cent coin. This Act also gave the the U.S. Treasury  discretionary powers to decide what inscriptions were stamped on the  lower denomination coinage. As a result of this legislation the two-cent  coin was the first U.S. currency to carry the inscription &#8216;In God We  Trust&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Before this time the coins and notes in circulation bore  no overtly Christian references; however, the increased religious  feeling during the American Civil War led to many appeals landing on the  desk of the Secretary of the Treasury, Salmon P. Chase,  requesting  that the country&#8217;s currency show some reference to God. Other coins were  also redesigned to carry the inscription, &#8216;In God We Trust&#8217;, which  eventually became the motto of the U.S.A. in 1956. The following year  the motto appeared on bank notes for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>While the  motto continued in usage until the current day, the two-cent coin did  not fair so well. It was only produced for ten years. You can read about  the rise and fall of the two cent piece at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coincommunity.com\/coin_histories\/two_cents_1864.asp\">Coin Community web site<\/a>. Also, the U.S. Treasury web-site includes a page telling the history of the &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.treasury.gov\/about\/education\/Pages\/in-god-we-trust.aspx\">In God We Trust&#8217; motto<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 22nd April 1864 the U.S. Congress passed an Act to authorise the issuance of a two-cent coin. This Act also gave the the U.S. Treasury discretionary powers to decide what inscriptions were stamped on the lower denomination coinage. As a result of this legislation the two-cent coin was the first U.S. currency to carry [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":109615,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}