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Message:: [QUOTE="Drago the Wolf, post: 1326148, member: 22476"]Fred, I feel a bit insulted by you calling me, and other people who like, and want the half dollar to circulate, "fanatics". So what if the half is large? If you saw many of my other posts, I proposed REDESIGNING the half to be smaller, anyway, just as the president of NAMA said it would probably have to be, in order to circulate. And YOU are a dollar coin fanatic, so whats the difference? Also, didn't you read another person's post here, where another member wrote to their Congressman in support of eliminating the $1 bill and he quoted "My Congressman assured me that the "popular paper dollar" would be protected"? Seems your idea for the $1 coin is a futile quest. Furthermore, Canadian $2 coins ate about the same size as a U.S. half, and you said that vending machines (which all accept Canadian $1 and $2 coins come from the same company as the machines that accept the U.S. $1 coin) can be "taught" to accept a U.S. $2 coin, which I would want to happen, because two $2 coins would be better than four $1 coins to carry. I think for the good of us all, we should write to our Congressmen, advocating a $2 coin, in order to cut the production needs of $1 coins in half. There was talk of it years ago when they also talked about ramping up $2 bill production. They were keeping a U.S. $2 coin as an open option.[/QUOTE]