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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ed Zak, post: 10100, member: 824&quot;]<b>Love the design...will work IF we didn&#039;t have a paper dollar</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I am all for eliminating the paper dollar and replacing it with a coin...especially when I am trying to pay for a <span style="color: red"><b>Coke</b></span>&nbsp; at a vending machine and I have no ironing board available to &quot;flatten&quot; the dollar bill.</p><p><br /></p><p>You can&#039;t have both.&nbsp; The American public for the most part can&#039;t handle change in their currency.&nbsp; Shoot...the US Treasury spent over $20 million in marketing just trying to educate the public in changes to the $20 dollar bill!...and they have NO competition.&nbsp; If forced upon like what happened in Europe and Canada, people will complain, but will slowly accept it and move on with their lives.&nbsp; I always ask people (in this day and age when a moran pays for a candy bar in the express line with a debit card), how many single dollars do you have on you?&nbsp; the average is 2 to 3...BIG DEAL!</p><p><br /></p><p><b>The average life of a dollar is 16 to 18 months...tops!&nbsp; It cost us tax payers over $500 million per year just to produce dollar bills and we all know that coins last over 50 times as long.</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I love the design posted and I would like the see the size of a dollar coin to be larger than a SAC, but smaller than a Kennedy.&nbsp; Heck, they can use the same alloy in the <span style="color: darkorange"><b>SAC</b></span>&nbsp; as an outer rim with current alloy for the midde...a 2 toned coin!</p><p><br /></p><p>That will address those idiots in the American public that always cry, &quot;It looks like a quarter....whaaa&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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