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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 231485, member: 66&quot;]And when they did the dollar coin did not circulate.&nbsp; So they introduced the Loonie and it didn&#039;t circulate either.&nbsp; So they dropped the dollar note.&nbsp; People grumbled briefly and then accepted the dollar coin wholeheartedly.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s because the general public USES quarters.&nbsp; So they saw the new quarters in their change.&nbsp; It was new and different and they started trying to get one of each.&nbsp; The general public does not use dollar coins, so they never see the new designs and don&#039;t really know that they exist.&nbsp; You can&#039;t get people interested in collecting something they don&#039;t know exists.&nbsp; (Advertising may tell them about them, but it isn&#039;t really the same thing and practical everyday familiarity with them like it was with the quarters.)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Common argument.&nbsp; And it always comes back to the question &quot;Why would you have five coins in your pocket when there is no reason you should ever have to receive more than one in change?&quot;&nbsp; If you don&#039;t like them building up in your pocket as you do several transactions, SPEND&nbsp; them instead of just handing them a bill and getting back even more change.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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