Australia recently launched a "Donation Dollar" aimed at encouraging citizens to support local charities. I like the idea, but am not sure that they'll get the results they hope for. Do you think something similar would work in US pocket change? https://coinweek.com/world-coins/do...orlds-1st-dollar-coin-designed-to-be-donated/
Why should consumers have to pay for these coins? Why shouldn't the US Mint just donate some of the exorbitant charges that they impose on buyers of their products?
Any charity that has some physical presence will take change as donations. Some of them get numismatic things too like people that have dropped gold coins into the bins which there are many stories of. The Aussie idea which was mentioned really isn't crazy or anything that hasn't been happening, if anything it seems like it's just trying to encourage it to increase
I didn't mean as a collectible product. As a circulating coin. If we're getting 5 different presidential dollar designs in a year, or 5 different innovations from each state or whatever, maybe 20% of the dollars minted for circulation in 2021 (or 2025 - whenever there's a gap in the upcoming lineup) could explicitly remind people whose hands it passes through about the importance of charitable giving in American society.
