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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;19Lyds, post: 1014811, member: 15929&quot;]The ONLY way it will happen (as with ANYTHING) is if it&#039;s forced on them by not producing the paper dollar.</p><p>Canada moanded about it but adapted.</p><p>Australia moaned about it but adapted.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I don&#039;t see this country being any different.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for carrying change, most folks don&#039;t carry that many dollar bills anyway as they are always the first to go. I&#039;d much rather have 5 twenties in my pocket instead of 100 one&#039;s. I rarely accumulate more than 10 one&#039;s at any one time anyway since I&#039;ll spend them first to maximize pocket space.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>BTW, I do use my pants pockets for cell phone, keys, change, and bills despite my wife&#039;s protests. I also carry a ball point pen around where ever I go since I hate using &quot;public&quot; pens. Ugh!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>As for the dollar coins never being used in the past, that&#039;s very true. Their existance was solely to act as backing for the Silver Certificates where any bearer of said certificates could walk into any bank and demand one dollar in silver in exchange. Banks had to comply therefore they kept silver dollars on hand. The coins really had no other purpose until the gambling casino&#039;s started using them in slot machines and the gaming tables. As a kid in the 50&#039;s, you rarely ever saw a cash drawer that had an adequate supply of silver dollars. They just were not used and the only time you ever saw them in daily commerce was if someone just returned from Vegas or Reno and happened to forget to turn them in before they left. Of course, coin collectors were a different breed of cat!</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Yes, the day will come when all Americans will be forced to adapt to the changing economy as I just don&#039;t see any other way to effectively save those production costs. We won&#039;t like it but we will adapt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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