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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Numbers, post: 2594917, member: 11668&quot;]Um...not exactly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The legislation requiring IGWT to be added to the currency was specifically worded in such a way as to allow the BEP to phase in the motto gradually as new master plates were made, and keep printing currency without the motto in the meantime.</p><p><br /></p><p>Initially that didn&#039;t cause too much confusion.&nbsp; The 1957 $1&#039;s with the motto were printed alongside the 1935F $1&#039;s without the motto; simple enough.&nbsp; Trouble started when the new Smith-Dillon signatures came along in 1961, and the BEP started printing 1957A and 1935G notes.&nbsp; Some members of the public saw the 1935G notes with new signatures but no motto, and started to complain that the Treasury had &quot;switched back&quot; to the no-motto notes (when in fact they&#039;d never stopped printing them at all).&nbsp; The Treasury finally got so tired of answering these complaints that in early 1962 they tossed out the remaining supply of perfectly good no-motto back plates, and started printing 1935G notes with the motto.</p><p><br /></p><p>Printing of other denominations with the motto didn&#039;t begin until 1964, during the Granahan-Dillon signature combination (designated Series 1963).&nbsp; This time, the Treasury again kept on printing no-motto notes into the next signature combination (Series 1950E with Granahan-Fowler signatures), but the volume of such printings was apparently small enough that they didn&#039;t get enough complaints to bother adding the motto to these notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, the trickle of no-motto printings didn&#039;t actually end until September 1968, with the last delivery of 1950E $10&#039;s.&nbsp; From the first delivery of currency with the motto to the last delivery of currency without it, the transition lasted eleven years and a week![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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