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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Conder101, post: 630393, member: 66&quot;]It takes an act of Congress to change them, but it doesn&#039;t take one to stop making them.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But the clad coins DON&#039;T have the same electrical resistance as the silver coins.&nbsp; That wasn&#039;t a consideration back in 1964 when the clad coins were developed because back then the coin mechanisms were strictly mechanical.&nbsp; The three layer clad composition was created because it would be extremely difficult or impossible to counterfeit.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>No they had the composition already, the reason we got 1999 SBA&#039;s was bcause they were going to run out of SBA&#039;s and need new dollar coins before the end of the year, but by law they couldn&#039;t issue the Sac dollars until 2000.&nbsp; (They were actually making SBA dollars and the Sac dollars at the same time.)&nbsp; They couldn&#039;t make the 1999 SBA&#039;s out of the new composition because that would have required new legislation passed by Congress changing the alloy of the SBA.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt that there are all that many vending machines out there that are over thirty years old and which haven&#039;t had their coin mechanisms serviced in the past thirty years.&nbsp; All vending machines manufactured in this country since 1979 are capable of accepting dollar coins, and probably most of the replacement coin mechanisms as well.&nbsp; The hing is they come form the factory set to reject the dollar coins but in most cases it is simply a matter of flipping a switch to make them accept the dollars.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Especially since they spent $60 million for the exact same thing in 2000 when the Sac dollar came out and it failed then.&nbsp; They could have looked back to 2000, seen that ads don&#039;t work and saved $45 million.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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