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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 1945577, member: 66&quot;]Actually it states that it MAY be inscribed if the Mint Director desires it and the&nbsp; Sec of the Treasury approves.&nbsp; It was not mandatory.&nbsp; That was why Roosevelt felt he could direct that it not appear.&nbsp; He did check the law and in his writings to Saint-Gaudens stated that finding it was not mandatory that he did not want it on the coins.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thereby making the design of the buffalo nickel technically illegal as the motto had appeared on the five cent piece previously from 1866 - 1883.</p><p><br /></p><p>(A little heresy coming here)</p><p>While Saint-Gaudens is given credit for the&nbsp; eagle and double eagle, he was constantly involved with several projects which he considered more important than the coinage design.&nbsp; He did come up with the ideas, and did some rough sketches (These can be seen in Roger Burdette&#039;s&nbsp; <i>Renaissance of American coinage 1907 - 1908.&nbsp; </i>And they are <u>rough</u>!) but he was also in very poor health and I believe that most of the actual modeling and other work was done by his assistant Henson.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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