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rawmorganrawmorgan Posts: 618 ✭✭✭
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What is your favorite motto from a coin or token, if you have an exapmle show it off.

Mine is: "Liberty Parent of Science & Industry"

Why: "Liberty is the great parent of science and of virtue; and a nation will be great in both in proportion as it is free." (Letter to Dr. Willard, 1789 from Tomas Jefferson.)



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  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    image

    it's been my sigline for years

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • 123cents123cents Posts: 7,178 ✭✭✭
    Fugio Cent...Mind Your Business.
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  • rawmorganrawmorgan Posts: 618 ✭✭✭
    I also enjoy this darkside piece: "Industry has it's sure rewards"

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  • pruebaspruebas Posts: 5,088 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "No pleasure can exceed the smoking of the weed."
  • BroadstruckBroadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  • BryceMBryceM Posts: 11,927 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Mind Your Business" on the Fugio. I love the double meaning.

    I don't love that I don't have one. (Yet)
  • nutmegnutmeg Posts: 345 ✭✭

    Shoot him on the spot
  • JustlookingJustlooking Posts: 2,895 ✭
    In God We Trust. Says it all, really.
    Let's try not to get upset.
  • crypto79crypto79 Posts: 8,623 ✭


    << <i>In God We Trust. Says it all, really. >>



    We who?
  • MidLifeCrisisMidLifeCrisis Posts: 10,613 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Fugio Cent...Mind Your Business. >>


    This...easily my favorite.
  • NicNic Posts: 3,437 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Mind Your Business" as well.

    K

    My 1866 Philly Mint Set

  • dbemikedbemike Posts: 1,018 ✭✭✭
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    Mike

    My Ebay

    1934-1958 RB Lincoln Short Set
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  • SaorAlbaSaorAlba Posts: 7,593 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Shoot him on the spot >>



    Mine would be the rare variety that says "Shoot him on the spoot"
  • breakdownbreakdown Posts: 2,375 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Not sure I have a favorite but one I always liked :

    FROM SLAVE CABIN TO HALL OF FAME

    On the Booker T. Washington commem.

    "Look up, old boy, and see what you get." -William Bonney.

  • BillJonesBillJones Posts: 35,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    “Liberty the Parent of Science and Industry” would be a wonderful motto for the current generation of Americans to take to heart. The freedom to come up with your own ideas have the ability to raise the capital to make them come to fruition has been a hallmark of this country’s success. Too many Americans now ask, "What can my country do for me?"

    “Live free or die” from the New Hampshire State Quarter is another good legend.

    I don't advocate kicking people out in the snow, but some people need a kick in the butt now and then. image
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  • cladkingcladking Posts: 29,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Fugio", of course.

    I also like "don't tread on me", and "millions for defense, not one cent for tribute".

    There are so many to choose from but few are so succinct and eloquent as "Liberty".
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>In God We Trust. Says it all, really. >>



    We who? >>



    IGWT is an enigmatic expression... who can define the meaning of any of the individual words, let alone the phrase as a whole?

    It's truly a motto that means a different thing to everyone, ranging from nothing to everything and all philosophies in between

    Even the syntax is unusual... as if it were written by Yoda

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • cladkingcladking Posts: 29,828 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On the bright side we can content ourselves that at least they didn't pick "Allah akbar", or "O ye gods, who ferry over". image
    tempus fugit extra philosophiam.
  • savoyspecialsavoyspecial Posts: 7,346 ✭✭✭✭
    END OF PAIN (PAINE)

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  • yellowjacketyellowjacket Posts: 1,809 ✭
    Millions for defense...Not one cent for tribute

    Garrow
  • DennisHDennisH Posts: 14,040 ✭✭✭✭✭
    On Scotland ryals or "sword dollars" of James VI (1566-71):
    PRO ME SI MEREOR IN ME
    ("for me; against me if I deserve it")

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    When in doubt, don't.
  • StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭✭


    << <i>“Liberty the Parent of Science and Industry” would be a wonderful motto for the current generation of Americans to take to heart. The freedom to come up with your own ideas have the ability to raise the capital to make them come to fruition has been a hallmark of this country’s success. Too many Americans now ask, "What can my country do for me?" >>

    +1
  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,649 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Mind Your Business
    "If it's not fun, it's not worth it." - KeyMan64
    Not really looking for much these days but if I were, it might be a toner. :smile:
  • mayor1mayor1 Posts: 377
    "Good for one free beer"
    USAF RET. 1963-1984

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  • RayboRaybo Posts: 5,352 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Good for one free beer" >>



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  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 14,307 ✭✭✭✭✭
    IMMUNE COLUMBIA.
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  • ctf_error_coinsctf_error_coins Posts: 15,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Live Free or Die"
  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 31,436 ✭✭✭✭✭
    in God we trust sums it up for me
  • NewEnglandRaritiesNewEnglandRarities Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭✭
    Mind Your Business for me as well. A timeless classic!
    New England Rarities...Dealer In Colonial Coinage and Americana
  • StubbyMcNumbthumbsStubbyMcNumbthumbs Posts: 1,259 ✭
    A couple of my favorites from the dark side...

    HONI SOIT QUI MAL Y PENSE (Evil to him who evil thinks.) - Found on some of the later George III silver coinage.

    and

    NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT (No-one provokes me with impunity.) - Found as incused edge lettering on the 1984 Scottish One Pound.


    But still number one....

    IN GOD WE TRUST


    Stub
  • coindeucecoindeuce Posts: 13,507 ✭✭✭✭✭
    From the silver and gold pattern coins of 1879 / 1880: "Deo Est Gloria"
    J-1643 Quintuple Stella
    image

    "Everything is on its way to somewhere. Everything." - George Malley, Phenomenon
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  • rec78rec78 Posts: 5,927 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "Don't tread on me."
    image
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    "I was an ass to bear the first pair"


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    Same as it ever was, eh?
  • silverpopsilverpop Posts: 6,896 ✭✭✭✭✭
    love is patient

    love is kind

    love never ends

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  • lasvegasteddylasvegasteddy Posts: 10,480 ✭✭✭
    nevada cathouse tokens bear some interesting motto's on their tokens....image
    everything in life is but merely on loan to us by our appreciation....lose your appreciation and see


  • SteveHaydenSteveHayden Posts: 18 ✭✭
    How about We All Have Our Hobbies. In this instance on the back of an 1850's Mobile Alabama Jockey Club token.
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    civilwartokens.com
  • joeykoinsjoeykoins Posts: 18,433 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The first coin , way back in 1864,the country's best engraved words ever! " In God We Trust ".image

    "Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!

    --- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.
  • SwampboySwampboy Posts: 13,216 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My all time favorite motto is "Happy days are here again" Fel Temp Reparatio
    showing a Roman spearing a fallen horseman.

    imageConstantius II ca. 350 A.D.

    "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working" Pablo Picasso

  • LanceNewmanOCCLanceNewmanOCC Posts: 19,999 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"Live Free or Die" >>



    sounds good to me

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  • DUIGUYDUIGUY Posts: 7,252 ✭✭✭
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    “A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly."



    - Marcus Tullius Cicero, 106-43 BC
  • LotsoLuckLotsoLuck Posts: 3,786 ✭✭✭


    << <i>How about We All Have Our Hobbies. In this instance on the back of an 1850's Mobile Alabama Jockey Club token.
    image >>




    Good to see you posting Steve, dont be a stranger.
  • dcarrdcarr Posts: 9,981 ✭✭✭✭✭
    My biased opinion:

    "Real Money Doesn't Grow on Weeds"

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    Moonlight Mint
  • DorkGirlDorkGirl Posts: 9,994 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Fugio Cent...Mind Your Business. >>



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    Becky
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭
    how about "Value Me As You Please" and "I Am Good Copper" and "I cut my way through"

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • BuzzybestBuzzybest Posts: 932
    I like the one that nobody can argue with on the side of the 5oz ATB:

    .999 FINE SILVER 5.0 OUNCE

    I just looked at one that I'm using as a beer mug coaster.image
  • WalkerfanWalkerfan Posts: 10,166 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Fugio Cent...Mind Your Business. >>



    I like that too image

    Sometimes, it’s better to be LUCKY than good. 🍀 🍺👍

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  • mr1931Smr1931S Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭✭✭
    "OD WE TRUST"

    I have a 1942 Lincoln struck through grease filled die where "IN G" would be.

    It's the discovery coin.image

    Einstein’s view of God was non-traditional and pantheistic, focusing on the harmony, order, and intelligibility of the cosmos rather than a personal deity. His quotes reveal a profound respect for the universe’s mysteries, a belief in rational laws, and a moral philosophy grounded in compassion and understanding, bridging science and spirituality.

    “My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.”

    Albert Einstein (14 March 1879--18 April 1955)

  • GeminiGemini Posts: 3,085 ✭
    Speed The Plow - It Feeds All
    A thing of beauty is a joy for ever
  • BaleyBaley Posts: 22,663 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>"OD WE TRUST"

    I have a 1942 Lincoln struck through grease filled die where "IN G" would be.

    It's the discovery coin.image >>



    All my Mercury dimes say, "IN COD WE TRUST"

    Americans love Fish n chips!

    Liberty: Parent of Science & Industry

  • topstuftopstuf Posts: 14,803 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Continental Currency.... "To Counterfeit is Death"

    succinct.

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