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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 773501, member: 66&quot;]I guarantee you it would increase the use of the two.&nbsp; I admit people do prefer to use paper rather than the coin, and when they find they can gets twos and just a few dollar coins they will gladly order the twos.&nbsp; And the greatly increased production of the two will also offset the job loss at Crane Paper that they are worried will happen if they stop the one.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>They DID.&nbsp; Back in 2000 when the Sac came out the government spent over 60 million dollars advertising them.&nbsp; Just last year they spent over 12 million dollars advertising them.&nbsp; Sometimes the government isn&#039;t too bright.&nbsp; Back in 2000 they got Wal-Mart to distribute Sac dollars for ONE MONTH.&nbsp; Before that time the government was distributing SBA&#039;s at a rate of 60 million coins a year.&nbsp; Wal-Mart distributed 95 million coins in a month.&nbsp; The government considered that to be a failure.&nbsp; When they were looking at an advertising campaign for the President dollars in 2007 they specifically said they wanted to avoid a failure like the 2000 Wal-Mart campaign.&nbsp; The only problem witht he Wal-Mart campaign was that it was only conducted for a month, and there was poor communications about the program to the cashiers.&nbsp; many people wer left with either the impression that the dollar were only good at Wal-Mart, or that the coins were only going to be issued for one month and would therefore be valuable in the future.&nbsp; The first impression led to refusal of the coins, and the second lead to hoarding.&nbsp; There was also the problem that a lot of cashiers refused to let customers have more than one coin.&nbsp; This tended to feed the rarity theory.</p><p><br /></p><p>If the program could have been carried out at more stores or for a longer period I think it would have worked better.&nbsp; But I still don&#039;t see it as a failure.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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