Someone mentioned in one of the threads the fact that the new Presidential dollars don't say 'One Dollar' on them but have '$1' instead. Here's one possible explaination... http://www.newswithviews.com/guest_opinion/guest109.htm
The only reason I know, as to why "$1" is on the reverse, is that the Mint was required by law to put it there. http://cointerms.com/presidential_dollar_coins_legislations.htm
You may be correct. President Bush already signed the Security and Prosperity Partnership for North America that calls for an eventual new single North American currency to replace the US dollar, Canadian dollar, and Peso. So we can probably expect some changes to our coins along those lines over the next few years.
Just think what it will be like to have a few First Spouse $10 Gold Coins and few $50 1913 Buffalo Nickel coins in your pocket? I hate when there's no point to things.
Is that part of some high level conspiracy, or is there some other reason it wasn't mentioned in the White House press release.
The agreement calls for reducing the cost of trade, and also calls for setting measurable goals to achieve it. Subsequently, it was identified that the requirement to do business in multiple currencies was a cost issue and one recommendation was to implement a single currency similar to the Euro to adress this goal. This isn't a political forum, so lets just say that changes in coin design to facilitate conversion should not be unexpected.
