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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 866598, member: 66&quot;]Actually they complained frequently and made many attempts to get design changes in the 70&#039;s and 80&#039;s always to be thwarted by the Treasury dept objection that you couldn&#039;t change the designs because if you had more than one design in circulation at the same time people would be confused, not know which coins were real, and there would be a risk of counterfeiting. (after the state coins started resuling in a huge prfit for the government, the Treasury changed their minds and decided multiple designs was a GOOD thing.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The Treasury is wron about one thing, IGWT was manditory on the five cent piece as well.&nbsp; The law required it to appear on all coins upon which it had previusly apeared and it had appeared on the five cent piece from 1866 - 1883 so the 1908 law would have made it manditory on the five cent piece as well.&nbsp; In this respect the design of the Buffalo nickel is illegal since it lacked the motto.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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