Godless coins worth pretty penny
By SHANNON BUGGS
Houston Chronicle
March 15, 2007
“An unspecified number of the more than 300 million new George Washington presidential $1 coins made it through the minting plants in Philadelphia and Denver without getting lettering on their edges. Instead of bearing the inscriptions “In God We Trust” and “E Pluribus Unum,” the edges are smooth like pennies. The coins also are missing the mint mark and year.”
As a kid I made the mistake of polishing all of my coin collection. That devalued them. But they were shiny!