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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikey Zee, post: 2116467, member: 72818&quot;]I LOVE coins, but hate pocket change and most people throw all their &#039;change&#039; into jars and dump them at the supermarket or bank to get &#039;rid of them&#039;...and more and more people pay by plastic---bank-debit cards.</p><p><br /></p><p>Obviously, eliminating the paper dollar will encourage folks to finally accept a dollar coin. Coinage preferences, like our stubborn insistence to retain our obsolete system of measurements in preference to the metric system, will always postpone the inevitable, however necessary the need for that&nbsp; change for any number of valid and critical reasons.</p><p><br /></p><p>I collect all types of numismatics----from Ancient to Modern, and even tend to search rolls from the bank from time to time so my opinions do not reflect any &#039;hatred&#039; of coins, just the realization that coinage usage and preferences modify and vary along personal and emotional reasons more than on logical terms....the &#039;penny&#039; is a classic example; valueless on its own, and costing 3 or 4X its face value to produce....and everyone hates those annoying zinc-clad pains-in the-butts, yet billions of those things keep pumping out of the mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Like everyone else here, coins are my passion and I also realize as all of you do, that change has to come to our current denomination of coins, in whatever material or &#039;metal&#039;. Eventually we will have a coin-type dollar and accept the metric system and even build a bridge from the east end of Long Island to Connecticut...but probably not in my life-time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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