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<p>[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2469323, member: 112"]Quite true. But do you realize how long "all along" has actually been ? </p><p><br /></p><p>Well I can give ya a hint, it has been since before the US even existed, let alone produced their first $1 coin. Prior to the existence of the US the Spanish colonial 8 reales was the $1 coin, and they were quite often cut up into pieces because people didn't need, or want, $1 coins. They needed small change, so they cut up the big coins. And throughout the history of the US the $1 coin has never been popular, they have never been widely used in circulation - not ever. And we have gone through several periods of time, some of them quite long, where we never even minted any $1 coins - and the people were quite happy without them, never once asking for them. And each time the govt. brought them back, the coins were still very, very, rarely ever used.</p><p><br /></p><p>So fighting a losing battle ? The battle was lost before it ever started. The people simply don't and never have wanted a $1 coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GDJMSP, post: 2469323, member: 112"]Quite true. But do you realize how long "all along" has actually been ? Well I can give ya a hint, it has been since before the US even existed, let alone produced their first $1 coin. Prior to the existence of the US the Spanish colonial 8 reales was the $1 coin, and they were quite often cut up into pieces because people didn't need, or want, $1 coins. They needed small change, so they cut up the big coins. And throughout the history of the US the $1 coin has never been popular, they have never been widely used in circulation - not ever. And we have gone through several periods of time, some of them quite long, where we never even minted any $1 coins - and the people were quite happy without them, never once asking for them. And each time the govt. brought them back, the coins were still very, very, rarely ever used. So fighting a losing battle ? The battle was lost before it ever started. The people simply don't and never have wanted a $1 coin.[/QUOTE]
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