Susan, I think it starts on clay.  Will be interested to hear if that is so.
Arianne Laidlaw

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:34 AM, Susan Bailey <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> They were not working with oil on canvas here but metal!
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> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Peter Salwen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Aahh, those coins, at last. Fully up to (extremely low) expectations.
>> Hideous portraits that seem to have employed a very poor (if rugged) Twain
>> impersonator as the model, with the silver coin showing this compulsive
>> *cigar* smoker with a *pipe* (more artistic," I guess).
>>
>> And, of course, the motto "IN GOD WE  TRUST" in great big letters. Anybody
>> here remember what Twain had to say about that motto? From the notebooks:
>>
>> "It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well -- In God
>> We Trust. I don=C2=B4t believe it would sound any better if it were true."
>>
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>> And,
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>> "The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time
>> has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in
>> the Republican party and the dollar -- mainly the dollar."
>>
>>
>> Just musing . . . .
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