From "Did You Know?"
Reader's Digest
Pg. 272
The first silver English florin (two shilling piece) issued in 1849, was
popularly known as the "Graceless" or "Godless" florin, because it did not
carry the traditional inscriptions "Dei Gratia" - By God's Grace - and
"Fidei Defensor" - Defender of the Faith. A virulent cholera epidemic in
that year was widely blamed on the evil influence of the florin, which had
to be withdrawn. The Master of the Mint, a Roman Catholic, resigned under
public pressure.
And they wonder why many of us think you have to be a little insane to be a
theist.
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