Modern $1 coins just plain suck

A) You must have a really nice belt.

B) You can go into just about any bank and get $2 notes. They're happy to get rid of them.

 

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Fruitcakes are both nasty and heavy. New dollar rolls and fruitcakes are suitable for doorstops if placed correctly.

 

i use $2 all the time
its a lot easy then having a wallat filled with ones

 

Well there you go!

At least somebody uses them. I really don't think we need to produce anymore at this point though. You're probably spending the same ones over and over.

P.S. I have been know to spend them too.

 

Very true the public never liked them, but it was always for a different reason. The way I see it, I don't blame the public for not accepting silver dollars and Anthony dollars. I wouldn't want to use them either. Silver dollars are heavy and big, and Anthony dollars look a lot like quarters. Those were some pretty valid arguments that made them impractical.

 

Nickels look like quarters, but you never confused the two of them. The percent difference in size is roughly the same as the SBA to the quarter.

And if confusion is why you shun them, what are you confusing the current dollar coin with? Because they definately don't circulate either. This is just a lame excuse that people have spouted for years with no REAL basis in fact.

 

If nickels were the same thickness of a quarter and had reeded edges, then I would definitely agree with you.

People aren't confusing the current dollar coin with anything. People don't accept them because of misconceptions. People think that "well, if I buy something that comes out to $5.01 and I give a ten, my change comes out to $4.99. That must mean I will get 4 dollar coins and a bunch of other change. I don't want all that in my pocket!". In reality, they would get two $2 bills and a bunch of other change, no dollar coins at all. Of course, the only way this would work is if the dollar bill is eliminated.

 

:hail:

*ALMOST* enough to make me change to your side in this debate. :mouth:

 

That's because we've been given a choice. Take away the $1 note and they will be used...Mike

 

Write this down. On August 1st, 2007, I Ruben Safir do whole hardely agree with the sentiments and facts as professed by Cloudsweeper99 with regard to the modern dollar coin.

Its worth noting

Ruben

 

Clembo:

"Modern $1 coins just plain suck"

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It is about time that some one said it.
Thanks again.

 

this mornign at Mcdonalds, yesterday afternoon in the shoppette, yesterdayat lunch...........

never mind the ones I got in change last thursday and friday

 

It's sort of like a total solar eclipse.

 

Even in the sixties when you could still go to the bank and ask for silver dollars, the tellers were glad to get rid of them. Most of the time someone would give you a silver dollar as a gift but we never got one from a store in change.
However the good old half dollar was used all the time (most coin changers used by paper boys or milk men had a slot for halves) and for some reason after 1964 (1965 to 1970 40% silver) people stopped using them, many were hoarding them plus the mint played some part in it by only minting halves at one mint in 65, 66, 67. As a kid you would use a half to go to the movies not quarters

 

If you are a cashier then it's time to find a new job if you are that bitter about handling money. It's money. If you find it inconvenient then don't use it yourself but as a cashier you must deal with it as part of the job.

Take some time off and relax ..it's really not that big of a deal.

 

The last of the big silver ones!

 

I have ONE use for the dollar coins.
Vending machines.
There are a bunch of vending machines where I work and the $ coins keep me out of trouble.
A lot of times, if I use a dollar bill, the machine will either not take it or it will EAT it.
This enrages me, I kick the living snot out of the machine, and a supervisor or the plant manager ends up peeking around the corner to see what is going on.
Of course, I stand there looking like I'm inquizitive to the noise as well.
*whistles*

The $ coin usually completes the transaction I want, without any complications.
This keeps me out of trouble.

Oh, sidenote for everyone.....

NEVER, I mean NEVER punch or kick a stamp machine in the Post Office !!
Frickin' bells, whistles, sirens, and flashing lights go OFF !
People come running around the corner to check and everything.
If I had the $ coins, when I was wanting stamps, I wouldn't have known that.

 

I used a US John Adams $1 coin on a Santa Clara county (California) bus Monday.
I did ask the driver first if it was OK.

 

It's called "seignorage". The U.S. Government takes a couple cents worth of metal and by imprinting its official design on that metal, lo and behold, the metal is now worth $1.00...! So, now the government can say it has "$100,000 in storage" instead of saying it has "$4000 worth of copper, zinc and manganese in storage".

If you could legally take scraps of metal worth a few cents laying around your house, imprint it with your design and magically call it a dollar, don't you think you'd be pumping these things out 24/7? The Mint is one of biggest money-makers for the government (pun intended)...