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Message:: [QUOTE="Numbers, post: 469123, member: 11668"]The first notes printed with the motto were the 1957 $1 silver certificates, which were first issued in the fall of 1957. The earliest-dated notes with the motto were some of the 1935G $1 silver certificates, but in that case the with-motto version wasn't actually printed until the spring of 1962. The $1 Federal Reserve Note didn't exist until Series 1963.  They went to press in late 1963, and all of them have the motto. The $2 and $5 USNs and the $5, $10, and $20 FRNs first got the motto in 1964; all of these had a series date of 1963.  The $50 and $100 FRNs with the motto were first printed in 1966, dated 1963A (there are no Series 1963 notes of these two denominations). The last notes printed *without* the motto were some 1950E $10's; the last run from the old printing plates was in the fall of 1968, eleven years and one week after the $1's with the motto began to be printed. If your son's schoolteacher is into trick questions, there's also the 1886 $5 silver certificate, which sort of has "In God We Trust" on it.  The back design of this note shows five silver dollars, and these silver dollars do, of course, carry the motto.  The five coins are shown partially overlapping in a stack--the complete motto isn't visible on any one of them, but all the words are there someplace....[/QUOTE]