CoinWorld by Michael Bugeja Jan 08, 2012 The best thing about our hobby is how it occasionally compels us to do research when we make a discovery, as I did recently in a study of mottoes and coin design. One of the study’s goals was to document where our mottoes — “E Pluribus Unum” and “In God We Trust” — typically appeared, on the obverse or reverse of U.S. circulating and commemorative coinage. Story