(plural paradigm shifts) 1  A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new one, necessitated when new scientific discoveries produce anomalies in the current paradigm. ( US) A radical change in thinking from an accepted point of view to a new belief.
The use of IN GOD WE TRUST has not been uninterrupted. The motto disappeared from the five-cent coin in 1883, and did not reappear until production of the Jefferson nickel began in 1938. Since 1938, all United States coins bear the inscription.
More Recent History of the Susan B. Anthony Coin. Fast forward a few decades and, in 1997, Congress passed the game changing act of the United States $1 Coin Act (Public Law 104-124, Sec. 4), which replaced the Susan B. Anthony dollar with the newer golden dollar coin.