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8 comments:
I'm glad one person is excited. I dislike coins, and I won't be using these if I can help it.
Respighi,
I love coins and stamps. They're works of art
I like the idea of a dollar coin. But it will only work if the government withdraws paper dollars.
R
when i get dollar coins as change i can never make myself spend them later on. i feel like i have to put them in a jar and save them.
spidey
We moved onto £1 and £2 coins in the 80s and compared with the tatty bits of paper that £1 notes become after about three days out in public they are great , some countries have gone onto a sort of plastic credit card type money I beleive
I got a huge handful of Susan B. Anthony dollars in change from a stamp machine at the Post Office (I've noticed that only the USPS seems to acknkowledge SBA dollars.) They've been quite a challenge for me--I keep trying to use them as quarters and getting them handed back to me. Some clerks even say "what IS that?"
Dollar coins would be a lot better accepted if 1) the gold coloring didn't rub off, 2) they weren't the exact same size as quarters.
There's also the problem that no vending machines other than the USPS are ever set up to accept those dollar coins, so people are constantly throwing dollars into machines that read them like quarters.
If the feds want a dollar coin, then they need a larger coin and they need to make sure people can use it as a coin. Maybe they should just go back to the old Eisenhower silver dollar.
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