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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 992402, member: 19463&quot;]I 100% disagree with this one.&nbsp; On the few times I have seen $1 coins in cash drawers and asked about them, clerks tell me that they don&#039;t give them in change except on request to avoid ugly incidents with customers who either don&#039;t want them or don&#039;t know what they are.&nbsp; It is easier to throw them in the bottom of the drawer (with any half dollars that come in) and not have to waste valuable time retracting or explaining them.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way $1 coins will ever work is to stop printing $1 paper.&nbsp; There is no need to demonitize them since a few years of wear will remove the trashy ones and drive the rest into collections along side the wheat cents.&nbsp; New vending machines will be made to accept $1 paper for a while but soon enough that will be unnecessary.&nbsp; While they are upsetting the conservative public, they may as well stop making pennies and nickels (a loss to make) and require states to reissue their sales tax tables appropriately.&nbsp; Of course the easy way to do this would be like Europe where sales tax is paid by the seller so McDonalds would have to put a couple drops less ketchup on each burger to offset the loss or admit defeat and have a dollar menu that costs $1.10.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The reason this won&#039;t happen is that it would be political suicide for whoever got blamed for it.&nbsp; Postage stamps would have to be fifty cents when sold as singles and the world would come to an end.&nbsp; When the UK stopped making the Farthing there was talk about whether we really needed the one cent coin.&nbsp; Today a dime has the buying power of that 1956 Lincoln.&nbsp; In 1956 penny candy was a penny.&nbsp; What is a penny now?&nbsp; I suspect the whole thing will wait until they decide to round off all debts to the nearest dollar (as the IRS already does) and stop making coins altogether.&nbsp; Then you will see collectors unite behind new ideas like the George Washington $25 piece.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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