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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 2116038, member: 66&quot;]Well they haven QUITE been repeating the same thing each time.&nbsp; The made the SBA and it failed, too similar to a quarter.&nbsp; Next time with the SAC they changed the color and gave it a smooth edge.&nbsp; Worked better, and might have worked even better if they had continued the Wal-Mart promotion longer. (Wal-Mart distributed more in the one month promotion than the government did in the next two years.)</p><p><br /></p><p>The next time they thought multiple design might work, it had done wonders for the quarter.&nbsp; They didn&#039;t seem to realize that changing the designs on a coin no one sees doesn&#039;t do much to make people want to use it.&nbsp; (Interestingly when they were discussing how to distribute the President dollars one of their concerns was to &quot;Not have another failure like the Wal-Mart promotion was.&quot;&nbsp; They failed to recognize that the Wal-Mart promotion was the biggest SUCCESS they had had in the whole small dollar fiasco.)</p><p><br /></p><p>In 2013 they finally did the thing that could actually make it work.&nbsp; For the first time ever they introduced legislation to discontinue the dollar note.&nbsp; Of course as a stand alone it went nowhere.&nbsp; If it had been included with the Presidential dollar legislation back in 2005 it could have made them a success.&nbsp; So all the parts have been there now, they just haven&#039;t managed to get them all together.&nbsp; Now that they have all the parts, it&#039;s just in time for the end of the Presidential dollar coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>That would seem to give them the opening they need for a bill that would bring everything needed to make a successful dollar coin, but after three failures and a huge stockpile it so going to be hard to push through yet another dollar coin.&nbsp; maybe after another 15 to 20 years once the stockpile declines it would be easier.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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