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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Witty38, post: 1512116, member: 34290&quot;]&quot;The dollar coin costs 15 cents to produce and lasts 30 years; the dollar bill costs about 3 cents to produce and lasts 4.7 years, the GAO&#039;s Lorelei St. James said.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p><b>This statement proves to me that this decision to abandon $1 bills makes sense.</b>&nbsp; Although I would refute the contention that the dollar coin ONLY last 30 years!&nbsp; Who says so?...I see coins all the time over 30 years old.</p><p><br /></p><p>C&#039;mon, they&#039;ve apparently got over $1 BILLION of these Golden Presidential coins sitting in a vault.&nbsp; What a waste!</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s all politics. Heck, they&#039;ll be talking about this for another ten years.&nbsp; If they truely want to introduce the dollar coins, THEY WOULD STOP MAKING THE DOLLAR BILL!&nbsp; Simple. <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000"></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">Read more here: <a href="http://www.kansasc" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.kansasc" rel="nofollow">http://www.kansasc</a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left"><span style="color: #000000">ity.com/2012/08/15/3763856/small-change-lawm&quot;akers-push&quot;-dollar.html#storylink=cpy</span></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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