{"id":44582,"date":"2026-03-13T23:34:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44582"},"modified":"2026-03-13T23:34:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T03:34:27","slug":"the-u-s-mint-dropped-the-olive-branch-from-the-dime-what-does-that-mean-for-the-country-fortune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=44582","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country? | Fortune"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/03\/12\/us-mint-drops-olive-branch-dime-peace-war\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Screenshot-2026-03-12-at-95014-PM.png?format=webp&amp;w=1440&amp;q=100\" alt=\"\" style=\"width:185px;height:auto\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The eagle turned to the olive branch to show the nation&#8217;s preference for peace over war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2026\/03\/12\/us-mint-drops-olive-branch-dime-peace-war\/\">The U.S. Mint dropped the olive branch from the dime. What does that mean for the country? | Fortune<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>fta:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>When the Great Seal of the United States was finalized in 1782, it contained what the Founding Father\u2019s held as the country\u2019s most esteemed values. The eagle holds 13 arrows in its left talon and an olive branch in its right, its head turned toward the branch\u2014the side which the eagle preferred to err on.<br>&#8230;<br>Charles Thomson, who shepherded the final design, was explicit: the arrows represented the power of war, the olive branch the power of peace, and together they carried a single message: the United States had a strong desire for peace, but would always be ready for war.<br>&#8230;<br>Churchill\u2019s response? \u201cWith the greatest respect, I would prefer the American eagle\u2019s neck to be on a swivel so that it could face the olive branches or the arrows, as the occasion might demand.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eagle turned to the olive branch to show the nation&#8217;s preference&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[2240,1843,57],"class_list":["post-44582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-250th","tag-coins","tag-usa","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44582"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44584,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44582\/revisions\/44584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}