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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kvasir, post: 72149, member: 4139&quot;]It&#039;s a long thread so I guess i&#039;ll reply all at once.</p><p><br /></p><p>- As mentioned earlier a flaw with US money they do featured past presidents and that&#039;s too much politics in a coinage that is used by EVERYONE, and yet not EVERYONE necessarily agrees with a particular president. On the other hand a monarch or a neutral symbol like an emblem or a figure like Liberty works well. </p><p><br /></p><p>- Also as mentioned earlier who would get 10$ in coins instead of 10$ in bills in a wallet? You accumulate dollar bills in your wallet since you don&#039;t spend it because it looks similar to other denominations. Have a coin designed distinctively different from other denomination and you&#039;d spend them easily and readily as you accumulate them in your purse. When they give you change they give you bills first and the rest in change. The most you&#039;d be given in 1$ coins would be four unless you ask for something else or no bills were available.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trust me, from a Canadian who has dealt with the 2$ bill-coin switch over, you&#039;ll start spending them when you start having 3-4 pieces of it in your purse. The complaint about no space for coins is not really valid. I only miss the 2$ bill from a numismatic point of view. The last bill series was much more classier than the present series, imo, but I digress.</p><p><br /></p><p>And yeah, no one says &quot;twoosie&quot; or even worse &quot;2$ loonie&quot;, it&#039;s a TOONIE, damn it!</p><p><br /></p><p>- Gosh, people were given too much say sometimes. I&#039;m not suggesting there should be a dictatorship instead, but you can&#039;t effectively run a country without someone firmly says change will happen, this is what the government has decided and change will not be stopped. There will always be different opinions and you&#039;ll never be able to do anything waiting for an unanimous vote. Once the representative government is elected it should be free to do what it is empowered to do and there&#039;s no need to consult again the polls. The vote WAS the poll. Let them debate the issues in the House. A government just can&#039;t be concerned of what &quot;might&quot; not be readily acceptable by the public. If it was a wrong decision the government would be voted out next time, simple as that. What are the people going to do? I mean, boycott the dollar coin and have nothing else to spend? Again, removing the 1$ bill is the key. It has to occur simulaneously.</p><p><br /></p><p>- Other than vending machines there are also transits fare boxes. Gosh, just have them stop accepting bills and people will be forced to use coins. If the vending machine industry is relunctant to accept change (in more ways than one), SOMEONE ELSE will gladly take over. </p><p><br /></p><p>- Hong Kong introduced its 10$ coin in the late 1990s. Actually the coin is more popular. The attempt for the magenta plastic bill at around the same time was unsuccessful. The 10$ bills people have been used to have been green across different issuing banks. This is now the 7th and the largest denomination in the coin series. All I got to say is, suck it up! Americans have only been dealing with the 4 and have trouble with the 5th!?</p><p><br /></p><p>- No space for it in the cashier??? com&#039;on.</p><p><br /></p><p>- As for the change over causes job cuts at the mint? Sheesh, minting coins uses labour too!</p><p><br /></p><p>- Actually a bulging G-string on a male stripper is considered attractive.</p><p><br /></p><p>Just makes me frustrated how so many people have all these little excuses for not accepting change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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