By Bob Barney
” On every single coin that has ever been printed in the United States of America starting with the very first coin in 1792 would have the inscription, “LIBERTY”…”
Do you happen to know what word is on every single coin ever minted by the United States Mint?
Hi, this is Bob Barney with another podcast and I am getting into something that most people are either unaware of or do not realize the real meaning of the Revolutionary War and what our Forefathers fought about it and why we fought. Unfortunately today too many people think that we fought for democracy, that we wanted a democratic form of government, Representation. The term was, no taxation without representation. People think that we went to war over taxes or tariffs or because we wanted a democracy, however, that is not the real reason that we went to war.
I am a minor coin collector and I started collecting a few years ago and find it a very good hedge against inflation, both gold and silver itself as well. But coins made out of gold or silver or coins in general are a better hedge. An example for you, there are coins that are so rare that a year ago they sold at auction for 135 thousand dollars for one coin and a year later they are selling for 200 thousand dollars. That is the increase in rare coins. One thing that I think would surprise most people is that there is a word printed on every single coin that has ever been minted by the United States mint. In fact, the coinage act on April 2 Passover by the way, in 1792, mandated the wordage that had to be on every single coin. There was.
I want to explain to you what the most important concept that the American Revolution was fought over. Maybe it’s education or perceived ideas, people thought the forefathers were fighting against taxation or they were fighting against the right to be a democratic society and have their own government and be democratic. Believe it or not, America is not a democracy and it was not meant to be one. It is a democratic republic. All democracies in history have failed within a generation. I like to tell people this is what a democracy is” There are five people on a deserted island. 2 or women and three are men. The men vote that it is okay to rape the women and the women of course vote no…in a democracy, the women can be raped if the men vote for it. Our forefathers understood that democracy was not a good idea.
It was tried in Athens, other civilizations too and it did not work. Democracy is again mob rule. Our forefathers were afraid of mob rule. I wanted to get into this coin thing because on our coin there is a word which really symbolizes why we fought the Revolutionary War. I think if our forefathers were to come back today and see the tyranny we are actually under and listen to the people talk about democracy, like Pelosi saying Trump tried to take away our democratic form of government. He cannot take away something we do not have. Unfortunately because of disinformation and lying as well as education we are becoming a democracy and the next step after that is a dictatorship. So, for the last twenty years we have people being fooled that we are a democracy and we are seeing the vestige of a dictatorship. Our forefathers knew that a democracy was not the answer. A democratic form of a republic was the answer, that people would vote for representatives that represent them that would still vote their conscience and not be just a representative of mob rule. So we are based on democratic principles in a republic form of government which guarantees individual freedom . The individual was the most important thing to our forefathers, believe it or not, we were frontiers people. Even CT or NY or even Va at one time was the frontier back in the 1600s. We were people that valued indiependence, and liberty. We wanted to be left alone, have our own way of government and do our own thing but most importantly we did not want to be told what to do
We wanted to make our own laws and have our own way of life and be a free people.
What our forefathers actually fought for was liberty. On every single coin that has ever been printed in the United States of America starting with the very first coin, 1792, the country is less than three years old and congress established a mint and in that congressional mandate was that the verse of every coin published would have the inscription, “LIBERTY”..
The reverse side would have the US of America, E Pluribus Unum.
“What our forefathers actually fought for was liberty!”
— Bob Barney