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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;superc, post: 1823973, member: 44079&quot;]If we eliminate the dollar entirely, everyone just boosts their price (but not the minimum wage) to 5 dollars.&nbsp; Inflation is considered good for business owners and the US Treasury in DC circles.&nbsp; Perhaps after we drop the $1 bill we will reach back into history and resurrect an old denomination.&nbsp; The $2.50 denomination, but this time as a bill instead of a coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let us face it.&nbsp; The reason most Americans had no interest in the dollar coins, besides the chintzy glitter is it feels like a quarter in your pocket.&nbsp; Those )Presidential and Susan B and Sasquawea&nbsp; coins would have all been a lot more popular if they had been at least the size of a half dollar.&nbsp; But Treasury wanted to be cheap and minimize coinage costs, so they made them too tiny.&nbsp; We have seen this before.&nbsp; Look what happened with the $2.50 gold coin and the dime.&nbsp; Heaven help someone who had a purse full of both in the dark back then and had to make change.&nbsp; The Mint keeps making coins of the wrong size for what the coins are supposed to be used for.&nbsp; Over and over the Mint just doesn&#039;t get that as the denomination increases, the coin size has to also so people can tell them by feel.&nbsp; Actually they probably could have saved the dollar coin from extinction by making them octagonal or triangular, but that is way outside the box of the DC mindset.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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