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<p>[QUOTE="jhall28488, post: 9620, member: 995"]Good Healthy discussion here, it seems like this issue is always coming up on the discussion boards. </p><p>Everyone who collects coins wants changes, and everyone who doesn't collect doesn't care. People have gotten used to not looking at their coins due to never seeing anything new. If you think I'm kidding, carry around five or six Eisenhower dollars and spend them occassionally where you shop. Nobody under the age of 24 has seen them before. When I pay with these, I always get a few questions from the kids that work at the 7-11 or gas stations about the coins. It's amazing, but a lot of them don't even know that there is a dollar coin. It's also a good way to get them interested-tell them that dimes and quarters from 1964 and before are made of real silver and suddenly they start checking every date on every quarter and dime. I like to keep them busy looking, and maybe one or two of them will actually become a collector of some sort.</p><p>Anyway, I didn't know about the online petition, but now I do and I went to the web site and signed both of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Joe[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="jhall28488, post: 9620, member: 995"]Good Healthy discussion here, it seems like this issue is always coming up on the discussion boards. Everyone who collects coins wants changes, and everyone who doesn't collect doesn't care. People have gotten used to not looking at their coins due to never seeing anything new. If you think I'm kidding, carry around five or six Eisenhower dollars and spend them occassionally where you shop. Nobody under the age of 24 has seen them before. When I pay with these, I always get a few questions from the kids that work at the 7-11 or gas stations about the coins. It's amazing, but a lot of them don't even know that there is a dollar coin. It's also a good way to get them interested-tell them that dimes and quarters from 1964 and before are made of real silver and suddenly they start checking every date on every quarter and dime. I like to keep them busy looking, and maybe one or two of them will actually become a collector of some sort. Anyway, I didn't know about the online petition, but now I do and I went to the web site and signed both of them. Joe[/QUOTE]
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