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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 357591, member: 4626&quot;]RTD ticket machines give them out as change (as well as SBAs and Sacagaweas) so in the Metro Denver area they actually circulate quite a bit.&nbsp; Usually people receive them as change from the ticket machines and spend them close to where they get on or off, especially near light rail stations.&nbsp; Once the vendors receive them though they usually deposit them to banks so they don&#039;t have deal with them... so the circulation path is usually RTD machine to RTD passenger, to a vendor, to the bank... I suppose eventually some of the dollars have to be recirculated to the machines again... but they are circulating, technically.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ever since the buzz about the Washington smooth dollars started, there&#039;s also been a circulation path that starts at the Denver Mint&#039;s gift shop... they have a machine there that dispenses the latest president dollar for face value.&nbsp; Many people get a bunch of them to look for errors, then spend the ones they don&#039;t keep, or deposit them at the bank.&nbsp; Errors don&#039;t seem as common from Jefferson to the present so this has died down a bit, but it&#039;s still a big source for president dollars getting into circulation (many coin collectors, or people just getting them for the novelty of it, will get a few from the machine... keep one or a few of them, and spend the rest.)</p><p><br /></p><p>Post Office vending machines used to be a source of circualting small dollars too, but most post offices have phased out stamp vending machines that take cash in favor of automatic postal service units that take credit or debit cards, so that source is basically closed off now for the most part.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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