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Message:: [QUOTE="Conder101, post: 2134016, member: 66"]Yes, the legislation permitted the Director to include the motto on all coins upon which it would fit.  It was NOT made mandatory that it be included, the decision on whether or not to include it was left up to the Director.  that was why it didn't appear on the one cent, three cent, half dime, dime, gold dollar, or quarter eagle.  they were thought to be too small.  That is also why it did not appear on the 1907 Saint-Gaudens gold coins.  Roosevelt didn't like the idea of the motto appearing on coins, and they were trying to reduce the clutter on the coins.  When they realized that the use of the motto was not mandatory, they left it off. The public objection lead to new legislation that made the appearance of the motto mandatory on all coins that it had been on previously.  Technically that meant that it did NOT have to appear on the Lincoln cent, the Mercury dime, or the Indian quarter eagle.  But it was included on them anyway.  (Making the dime the last coin to adopt it, not the Lincoln Cent.)  Oddly enough by law it DID have to appear on the Buffalo nickel, but doesn't.[/QUOTE]