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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ewomack, post: 2682946, member: 15588&quot;]If anything ever happens with US money (apart from going electronic), I see Congress moving to polymer notes before switching to minting more coins. Perhaps even for the $1 bill. They cost more up front, but they last quite a bit longer than today&#039;s bills. It would also be a safer political move. All one has to do is read the excellent &quot;A Guide Book of Modern U.S. Dollar Coins&quot; in the Bowers series to realize just how much the dollar coin experiments of the past 40 years failed. From Ike to Presidential, they all failed rather miserably as circulating money. And yes, dollar bills did still circulate, but these coins were hated beyond that. No one wanted them. People refused them in change. People refused them at banks. People plain just didn&#039;t want them. People would probably hate them even more passionately if they were forced to use them. Though I don&#039;t know the future, I have a hard time believing that the mint has the stomach for more dollar coin disasters. I wonder if 2011 will remain the end of the line for circulating dollar coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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