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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 170771, member: 66&quot;]Yeah, and I&#039;ll brass plate quarters so they will pass for dollars.&nbsp; (You can&#039;t have two coins of the same size with different values of things like theis WILL happen.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>A common prediction for the past 35 years or more.&nbsp; (I do think it is getting closer, but I doubt if cash will ever be done away with completely.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s pretty close to what we already have.&nbsp; The dollar is a little larger in diameter and about 150% the thickness.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Agreed.&nbsp; Would they cry an moan if they had to carry a dollars worth of quarters?&nbsp; I seriously doubt it.&nbsp; But a dollar in quarters is 22.4 grams, a dollar in dollar coins is 8.1 grams.&nbsp; And they ALWAYS ignore the fact that there is no reason to ever have more than one dollar coin in their pocket.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because two dollar bills exist.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sorry, after the results they had with the Wal-Mart distribution of the Sac dollars (95 million distributed in one month compared to the 5 million that the Fed manges to distribute) the government has said that they won&#039;t use that method again because they don&#039;t want that kind of failure again.&nbsp; (Failure?&nbsp; Yes they consider it to be a failure because the coins were mostly hoarded and not circulated.&nbsp; What did they expect?&nbsp; A new never seen before coin, for the most part only give as change with most stores refusing to sell extra coins to customers, and customers commonly being told that it was only going to be done for one month.&nbsp; All of these would tend to convince a layperson that these coins were going to be &quot;a limited issue, and possibly rare&quot; so naturally they hoarded them.&nbsp; If they had done it for the whole years and instructed them to tell customers &quot;sure you can have as many as you want&quot;&nbsp; It would have helped convince them they were common and not worth saving .&nbsp; So they would have spent them and gotten them into sirculation!)</p><p><br /></p><p>As to the Post Office, they are getting rid of the stamp machines so that sourse of dollar coins is going bye-bye.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No, <b>ONE</b>!&nbsp; If you ever get more than one dollar back in change for a purchase the change can always be a combination of notes or notes and ONE single dollar coin.</p><p>$1 Sac&nbsp; &nbsp; $2&nbsp; two dollar bill&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; $3&nbsp; Two and a Sac&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; $4&nbsp; 2&nbsp; two dollar bills&nbsp;&nbsp; $5&nbsp; five dollar bill&nbsp;&nbsp; $6&nbsp; Five and a sac</p><p>$7&nbsp; Five and a two&nbsp;&nbsp; $8&nbsp;&nbsp; Five, two, and a Sac&nbsp; &nbsp; $9&nbsp; Five and&nbsp; 2 twos.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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