Comments on: 2016 Mark Twain Commemorative Coins in Gold and Silver

By: dennis sullivan

dennis sullivan — Fri, 26 Dec 2014 16:35:44 +0000

Samuel Clemens trained and became a riverboat captain. Mark Twain is a riverboat term indicating a certain amount of depth to the water where it was safe to take a boat. The man reading the rope in the water would yell “mark twain”, etc. Clemen’s teacher on the boat had used the name Mark Twain in signing his name in ledgers, pilot boat logs, etc, and after he died, Clemens adopted the name as he appreciated the man who taught him.

By: Kenneth Spell

Kenneth Spell — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 18:28:47 +0000

IN GOD WE TRUST…about which Twain once said, “A lovely motto. If only it was true.”

By: RonnieBGood

RonnieBGood — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 17:40:08 +0000

“IN GOD WE TRUST” All others pay cash.

By: jim

jim — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 06:18:59 +0000

I’m trying to figure out why 2016. it’s not a 100th anniversary of anything related to Twain. And why not Samuel Clemens? Stupid Congress probably thinks Mark Twain was a real person and not just a pen name.

I certainly hope the US Mint designers can come up with good representations. A head shot like we’ve been getting for the $1 president coins would be a good start for both the gold and silver coins.

By: Roy Mullin

Roy Mullin — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:57:03 +0000

Mark Twain was most definitely NOT and atheist! Rather he hated religions’ distorted view of God. He thought the Old Testament reveled a god with an extreme anger-management problem desperately needing religion. He dislike the New Testament god for bring eternal damnation to human kind for committing petty offenses. He didn’t reject the real God, the creator of the universe and all there is. He thought that we human beings such small little small creatures living on a small blue planet on the outskirts of a mediocre galaxy couldn’t hope to understand the real God. He rejected our pathetic invented of a puny god who had all the weaknesses and lack of morality as the human race.

By: CoinNews.net

CoinNews.net — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:25:26 +0000

Phantm Bear,
The coins will indeed include the inscriptions of ‘In God We Trust’, as well as ‘2016’, ‘Liberty’ ‘United States of America’, ‘E Pluribus Unum’ and the value of the coin.

By: Phantm Bear

Phantm Bear — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:20:30 +0000

Wonder if the coin will have “In God We Trust?”

Mark Twain was an atheist & would get a hoot out of that irony!

By: Victor

Victor — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:11:07 +0000

I wonder what currency we will be using in four years, to pay for these coins. Rubles, Yuans?