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! > > > Susan Bailey > Co author > The Twain Shall Meet > <http://www.amazon.com/Twain-Shall-Meet-Granddaughter-Gabrilowitsch/dp/1499799497/ref=sr_1_1/191-7847938-3534132?ie=UTF8&qid=1415889321&sr=8-1&keywords=the+twain+shall+meet+susan+bailey> > Twain Page <https://www.facebook.com/marktwainsgranddaughter> > www.marktwainonline.com > Greenville, SC > > On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 4:53 PM, Peter Salwen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> 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." >> >> >> And, >> >> >> "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 . . . . >> *_________________________________* >> >> *Peter Salwen /* salwen.com >> *114 W 86, NYC 10024 | 917-620-5371* >> -- Arianne Laidlaw A '58