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<p>[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4851812, member: 105098"]Americans do not want "dollar coins" we want "dollar bills".</p><p><br /></p><p>Unless they get rid of dollar bills, we are going to use dollar bills and not dollar coins because $10 in paper is lighter than $10 in coins and we already don't carry a pocketful of change here for the most part.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the private dancers prefer dollar bills also when folks make it rain. That's a whole line of work having it a lot rougher if we switched to dollar coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>the euro gets away with it because there's no other option below a 5 note.</p><p>the main argument against dollar coinsin the U.S. is from BUSINESS. and this goes for the large dollar too, is that $50 in ones weighs under 2 ounces.</p><p>$50 in "golden dollars" weights. 14 ounces, almost a pound.</p><p><br /></p><p>if you are getting business change would you rather pick up $500 in $1 bills or $500 in $1 coins given the option? it's the difference of about a pound and a half vs. near 9 pounds of weight.</p><p><br /></p><p>European registers have 8 coin compartments, the U.S. ones have 5 coin compartments sometimes 6.</p><p> 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cent, €1 and €2 yeah no thanks, I'll stick to bank notes.</p><p><br /></p><p>A question.... and off topic but in the realm, why the heck can't we copper plate steel cents like the ones from WW2. Fairly certain this brings the cost of a cent well below a cent again? literally the same thing we do now with zinc cents, but with a steel core, and not the "galvanized steel" of WWII?</p><p><br /></p><p>I guess a lot of our coins are technically bimetallic although not in the traditional sense of arranged in a ring format between the zincolns and the clad coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Burgess, post: 4851812, member: 105098"]Americans do not want "dollar coins" we want "dollar bills". Unless they get rid of dollar bills, we are going to use dollar bills and not dollar coins because $10 in paper is lighter than $10 in coins and we already don't carry a pocketful of change here for the most part. And the private dancers prefer dollar bills also when folks make it rain. That's a whole line of work having it a lot rougher if we switched to dollar coins. the euro gets away with it because there's no other option below a 5 note. the main argument against dollar coinsin the U.S. is from BUSINESS. and this goes for the large dollar too, is that $50 in ones weighs under 2 ounces. $50 in "golden dollars" weights. 14 ounces, almost a pound. if you are getting business change would you rather pick up $500 in $1 bills or $500 in $1 coins given the option? it's the difference of about a pound and a half vs. near 9 pounds of weight. European registers have 8 coin compartments, the U.S. ones have 5 coin compartments sometimes 6. 1, 2, 5, 10, 20 and 50 cent, €1 and €2 yeah no thanks, I'll stick to bank notes. A question.... and off topic but in the realm, why the heck can't we copper plate steel cents like the ones from WW2. Fairly certain this brings the cost of a cent well below a cent again? literally the same thing we do now with zinc cents, but with a steel core, and not the "galvanized steel" of WWII? I guess a lot of our coins are technically bimetallic although not in the traditional sense of arranged in a ring format between the zincolns and the clad coins.[/QUOTE]
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