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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;fusiafinch, post: 677747, member: 18382&quot;]You know, I like the Sacagewea dollar too. Original designs look pretty nice, and it was also nice to actually have a flying eagle return! Of course, circulating dollar coins is a problem virtually entirely unrelated to the design. </p><p><br /></p><p>What coins should not have been issued? The Susie B. certainly wasn&#039;t a good effort. The reason was they wanted to try a small dollar coin, but man, look how that went! And to top it all, they even had to issue a 1999 version! Took 17 years to use up the old ones. And it really makes no sense to have the moon landing reverse paired with women&#039;s suffrage.</p><p><br /></p><p>Better effort with the Sac dollar. But I don&#039;t like the ugly toning it acquires through circulation. And why did they remove the date from the obverse in 2009? No reason. Perhaps anti-counterfeiting, but I like the date on the obverse.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another set of coins we don&#039;t need: the current dollar Presidential series. Why? And to make these at the same time making other Sac dollars? Ridiculous. I guess the idea was: gee, since the quarters series worked so well, then people may use dollars if they had different designs too. Well, that&#039;s not true, is it? There&#039;s a difference between collecting designs and having coins circulate.</p><p><br /></p><p>And another: I love the Kennedy half dollar, but why continue it? It doesn&#039;t circulate either. I have a hard time even ordering these from the bank.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bottom line: If the Mint can make money making a coin, they&#039;ll do it. But that seems a bit different than its original purpose of making coins for public use in commerce.</p><p><br /></p><p>You know what they need to do to get these to circulate? Every new vending machine manufactured needs to accept dollar coins. That&#039;s what needs to happen, but the vending industry opposes this due to expense. I think it would help them. After all, how many times have you ahd to walk away from a machine holding your last crumpled paper dollar that it won&#039;t accept? Now there&#039;s at least one reason for a dollar coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>JMHO[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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