The New Dollar Coin: American Innovation

You really shouldn't need to do that to scam women, you know. The dogs will handle that just fine.

 

Log in or Sign up to hide this ad.

I'm from TX - Baylor College of Medicine Docs, Thomas Cronin and Frank Gerow, were the innovators of Silicone Breast Implants.

On a more serious note Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments created the first integrated circuit

 

When was that integrated circuit created? I was Project Quality Manager on a TRW team that produced a working Integrated Circuit in the mid sixties. It was about the size of a postage stamp and we thought it could never get any smaller.

 

Not sure where you live but in my area the only people that know what a dollar coin, a half dollar and even a $2.00 bill are is my teller and me.
Once in a blue moon you might get one in change but that's because the cashier doesn't know what to do with them at the close of business.
If I spend one I get funny looks. Sometimes I'm even asked if it's real.

 

That's the other 20% of the time.

 

For Oregon, Governor Tom McCall, 1913-1923, governor from 1967-1975. Advocated and achieved urban growth boundries, made Oregon beaches open to everyone. No such thing as private only access to all coastal Oregon and the Columbia river.

This from Wikipedia, (I'm really lazy, sorry) "
Thomas Lawson "Tom" McCall (March 22, 1913 – January 8, 1983) was an American politician and journalist in the state of Oregon. A Republican, he was the state's thirtieth governor from 1967 to 1975. A native of Massachusetts, McCall grew up there and in central Oregon and attended the University of Oregon in Eugene. After college, he worked as a journalist, including time at The Oregonian in Portland during World War II.

Later he worked in radio and then in television as a newscaster and political commentator. He made an unsuccessful bid for Congress in 1954, losing in the general election to Edith Green. While working for TV station KGW, he produced a documentary on pollution in Oregon, which helped to spur environmental cleanup of the air and the Willamette River. In 1964, McCall won his first political office, Oregon Secretary of State, followed by two terms as governor, where he worked towards environmental cleanup, the bottle bill, and public ownership of beaches on the coast among others. Tom McCall Waterfront Park in Portland is one of several items named in his honor.

 

Olmsted or frank lloyd wright

 

kinky, YES!!!

 

Often not very available. At a great many banks, if you ask for half dollars or dollar coins you will be told that they don't have any. They don't order them as part of their regular stock, and many of them won't order them for you either. If they do you have to take the entire box because they don't want them on hand tying up capital. So you have to be willing to take $500 in halves or $250 in dollars. (Why is a box of small dollars $250? Every other denomination's box is half a bag, the old bags not a ballistic bag. The old bag of small dollars was $2000.)

They are probably available at bank close to large cities that have major rapid transit systems that use the dollar coins, but if you get away from those areas the dollar coins are not very available.

 

Halves are not available. I have been trying for almost 3 weeks to get a single half. A gift for an autistic boy. And I have been striking out. Although a wonderful woman at the customer service at my grocery has said she will hold one for me when she gets one. Every place I go "We had them yesterday, bagged them and deposited them." Why? Because no one wants them. It is a headache for the stores so they just get rid of them immed.
GF is at the credit union now (they don't carry them) but I asked her to try to get one, in case someone deposited some.

This coin roll hunting halves is going to end abruptly. In time no one will carry them. And if they do, the associated fees will not be worth it.

I didn't inquire about dollar coins, but I imagine it's the same situation.

 

I know my original hometown is an exception, but halves and dollars were always at the teller windows. The Mint uses one firm as their “go to” vending machine compatibility partner, and it happens to be in Reading, PA. They did all the hard work for the SBA to Sac compatibility matter, and it is they who the Mint is working with on the eventual CuNi to Stainless transition coming. CarTech is working on the metals, and Goodman Vending does the compatibility work. In Reading, running across a vending machine that does not take small dollars is rare. Here, 53 miles due west, there’s none.

 

Good news. The CCAC unanimously rejected the reverse designs submitted for the 2018 American Innovation $1 coin.

http://news.coinupdate.com/the-ccac...tted-for-the-2018-american-innovation-1-coin/

 

Frankly, I think George needed to work on his penmanship.

 

That obverse IS pretty lame.

 

I think we need someone who can kick some artistic butt. I nominate @CoinCorgi, but with one slight modification.



See? Worked it in anyway.

 

more like a crawfish

 

So then there’s hope for the old ‘Nawlins Mint?

 

I would love it. Eventually I am going to complete my New Orleans Mint type set, so I'll need something else to do.

 

A promising start for this illustrious series!

 

Have no fear they will approve something in the future.