I just received an e-mail from the mint and it said, "starting in february check your change for the new Presidential dollars" i thought that was kind of funny....
'Bout as likely as if you check your change and find a Kennedy, or a Susan B., or even a Sacagawea. I rarely get anything over a quarter and don't expect to any time soon... unless you go to the post office where they push that stuff on you like the neighborhood crack dealer.
really??? that's rough. When I buy stuff I usually lean over the counter like a maniac and scope out the cash drawer and say, "Ooh! Can I have that?"
Hmmm...I get Sacs and Suzy Bs every day out of the change machine at work..although the SBAs are mostly 79s and the Sacs are always 2000s. Seems kind of stange .
Last time I rode the metro link train in St. Louis, the automated ticket machine spit your change out in Sacs. Not sure if its still like that or not. Other than that, its all quarters and less...
I think some of you guys are too hard on the poor old mint. I'm anti-government in general, as any good Libertarian must be, but at least the people at the mint are producing something real and solid. Maybe not as well and efficiently as free enterprise could do it, but like we say, nobody's perfect. I'm on the mint's email subscriber list and I'm always glad to receive their latest news. A lot of you guys on this forum seem to greet each new pronouncement from the mint with cynical sneering and ridicule. It's easy for that kind of thing to become a bad habit. I say let's give the mint a fair shake. After all, it's the only mint we've got.
think they use to call that a monopoly. Would it not be grand to see how our mint would handle some good honest god fearing competition. I got one of those mint thing about the $1 presidential coin. Says you can subscribe to a separate news letter to keep you updated about this poor coin. They have not even issued the thing and i am already trying to forget about it
I do that too but... I try not to make it too obvios as it probably looks like I'm scoping out the register for another purpose.
