IN GOD WE RUST: THE KANSAS QUARTER PHENOMENON
If you're an atheist, or at least have a sense of humor, check your pocket change. It appears that a small number of the new Kansas state quarters have been printed with the words "In God We Rust" on the front. Other variations include "In Od We Rust" and, moving to the bottom of the coin face, "E Pluribus Un."
Skipping through the eBay listings (if you fuck it up, they will come) defective Kansas quarters are hot items. Other purported errors include missing horns, triple horns, male pattern baldness on the buffalo, and even a speared buffalo. But the rusting deity has to be the cream of the crop.
Doubtless it is only a matter of time, probably measured in days rather than weeks, before the conspiracy theorists start talking about the left-wing atheist plot to subvert our God-fearing Christian nation. Why, mere possesion of one of these coins is likely to have you marked as the spawn of Satan. And almost certainly there will be some way of working the numbers 666 into the coin, proof indeed of infernal intervention.
As of today, the story of the rusting motto hasn't reached Internet viral proportions, but soon it will. And remember, you heard it here FIRST!
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I gots me one of them quarters in change today! Actually the first "T" in "TRUST" is faintly visible, sort of like a ghost. Unfortunately I don't think its worth a whole lot more than face value - perhaps five dollars or so.
It is quite appropriate that this error happened on the Kansas state quarter, since that state has been so stupid and backwards recently (debating the teaching of Darwin's theory of evolution, killing abortion-performing doctors, etc.). Kansas is indeed rusting away in its mindless godfullness.
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