Charis newly minted silver and Gold coins

Actually getting coins of the same composition, and weight requires a lot of effort. First you have to create an planchet of uniform thickness and then cut blanks of uniform size. It is not clear than hydraulic presses were in use at the beginning of the story arc, which implies man pressing (human operated screw presses - although i suppose animal muscle power through gears could be implemented).

I've ignored the fineness of the precious metal, and the control of the alloying process - I suppose the rms fineness could be insured, but intra-coin variation could be interesting. Then there is the creation of the dies, the lifetime the dies, not to mention the collaring and centering process. Until very recent time US coinage had interesting variations in pressing caused by technical (and human) issues.

Just saying minting a coin can be difficult, and highly technical job.

Kakai wrote:

Howard T. Map-addict wrote:
"In God We Trust" on the currency, "under God" in the
Pledge, both in Eisenhower's first term, after getting
by without them for about 175 years!

Out of sheer curiosity, as a non-American, may I ask - do people of different faiths, such as Muslim or Buddhist, have to pledge "under God" as well?

And more on-topic: maybe there could be some coins with, let's say, victorious Charisian soldier or sailor and names and dates of some battles of the current war? Maybe not as a regular currency, but some kind of commemorative "special edition"?

The pledge is no longer required in public and most private schools precisely because of the potential religious and national issues it provokes. The US government, and by extension the states, is prohibited from establishing or endorsing any religion; a point many conservatives tend to forget. Further asking potentially non-US citizen children to pledge allegiance to the US is a problem as well.

As far as the term "God" is used in both the pledge and on currency, it is officially considered a non-denominational reference to an abstract god of any religion according to Supreme Court decisions. Unfortunately, this rather flawed thinking is not likely to be reversed by the current court or any near future court, despite the fact that it is clear that these references to god were and are intended to be references to the christian god only by most christians in the US.

Would be kind of amusing to see the reaction if the mint took the non-denominational claim seriously, and changed the phrase to "in gods we trust" on the currency