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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Burton Strauss III, post: 3150149, member: 59677&quot;]True that - NO dollar coin has ever been accepted for general use in the US. The silver dollars were too big. The clad Ikes still had the same size.</p><p><br /></p><p>The small dollar was the only opportunity and they blew it making it too close to the quarter. To succeed it needed to be sufficiently different in size and tactile appearance.</p><p><br /></p><p>While the 2mm difference is sufficient between other coins, there is an obvious additional difference (reeded vs. plain between the dime and cent), thickness (cent/nickel/quarter).</p><p><br /></p><p>If the dollar coin had a size between the nickel and quarter (so ~22mm) and was not round, it might have worked.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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