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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drago the Wolf, post: 1303170, member: 22476&quot;]Guys,</p><p><br /></p><p>I was just thinking. If I could, by some miracle, get someone in Congress interested in supporting the minting of my &quot;Famous Dogs Half Dollar Coin Act&quot; (which is highly unlikely, but I&#039;m trying to keep an open mind here) with the smaller, thicker, copper colored, nonagon shape I have some questions that I was curious about.</p><p><br /></p><p>One question was, I remember reading about the Treasury wanting to melt down the Susan B. Anthoy dollars at one time, and I hear that the Federal Reserve currently has at least a 10 year supply of the current larger halves, so I was wondering, could I put in the legislation, that the Treasury is to render the large Kennedy halves obsolete, and melt them down to use the metal from them for the first batch of Famous Dogs small halves? Or would the nickel in the cupronickel outer layers on the Kennedy halves make a silver metal when melted down?</p><p><br /></p><p>Would it matter if the Famous Dogs Halves were a silver colored coin? I mean, even with just a polygon shape with sides, and being thicker than all other U.S. coins would be enough, as long as the coins were made thin enough to still fit in vending machine and self checkout machine slots, which is what I want.</p><p><br /></p><p>And finally, would retooling vending machines and self checkout machines be a big hassle and cost for those companies? I mean, I did call one self checkout company anout making their machines accept and dispense the current large half and the $2 bill, and he quoted one to two million dollars to &quot;entertain&quot; the idea, as I have already said. But maybe, with a smaller half, the retooling and reprogramming for a new, small half would be cheaper. A pity you wouldn&#039;t be able to put that big of, or as nice of a picture on an almost nickel/quarter -sizeed coin than you would, on the current half. Hey, do you think if this idea ever did pass, people would hoard large halves, like they did with Ikes?</p><p><br /></p><p>I really think that the public would dig a smaller, more distinguishible coin that is lighter than a quarter vs. the old half which almost weighs as much as two quarters, that has twice the purchasing power of the quarter. And hey, if people are not willing to carry a dollar coin, maybe the idea with circulating halves would help cut the problem with $1 bills wearing out too fast, but as I said, I am going to promote the $2 bill as well when, or if my business succeeds. Both of these denominations will help stop $1 bills from wearing out so quickly, and maybe we Americans can hold off on the dollar coin a little while longer.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry about bringing up similar topics, but I wanted to know if the current supply of large halves could be recycled into metals for my new proposed small halves and what color that metal would be (Silver or copper?)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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