New $1 USA coin set for this week

This should pose an interesting way to tip America's exotic dancers and how the dancers lug around a roll of coins.

New Dollar Coins Enter Circulation This Week

WASHINGTON (Feb. 11) - Maybe Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea should not take public rejection personally. It's not easy overcoming people's indifference to dollar coins, even those honoring such historic figures.

A new version of the coin, paying tribute to American presidents, goes into general circulation Thursday. Even though doing away with the bill could save hundreds of millions of dollars each year in printing costs, there is no plan to scrap the bill in favor of the more durable coin.

 

The question is when are they going to do away with the penny?

 

We have had dollar coins here for many many years. Also $2 coins. Cant wait till we start using $5 and $10 coins. Even $20, $50 and $100 coins will be cool too.

 

Give Strippers a raise $2 bill!

 

Get rid of the penny, add the dollar.

No alteration in cash register drawers need if we do that at the same time.

Honestly, pennys are a nuisance as are dollar bills.

BTW, I adore $2 bills. Best president ever and best scene on the back.

 

I went to a bachelor party once and only used $2 bills to tip the girls.. the looks I got were priceless.

 

Why do they keep wasting money making these coins? Who likes carrying coins? They take up more space, weigh more, and are louder than paper money. What the hell.

 

Some of us numismatists in the crowd don't particularly mind.

 

the vending machine lobby must be very strong. perhaps it's the mob behind it. most gangsters operate a vending company. cash business, no receipts. jukeboxes, poker machines, video games or cigarette machines. they lend money and tell the store operator the machine will repay it. when the machines don't cover the vig.. uh oh. i can't come up with a better reason. they've tried the coin twice and both times it failed. the coins must be more expensive to produce.

 

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A dollar coin is retarded. No one has used it in the past I don't know why they think that putting someone else on it will make them use it now. 90% of the time I've used a dollar coin the cashier thinks it's a quarter and tells me I don't have enough.

 

It works really well in Europe with the euro, why not here?

 

Euro folk do a lot of things that aren't worth emulating.

 

Coins are a way of life here. Have been so for many many years.
Im with you, why would it not work in the US?

Here are our Aussie coins. From left-
5 cent
20 cent
50 cent
1 dollar
2 dollar

Missing the 10 cent coin sorry. Looks very similar to the 5 cent coin, but slightly bigger.
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^I'm sure blind people love the fact the 5 cent coin is the same size as the 2 dollar coin. lol!

 

No one's ever liked a dollar coin, they need to give up. plus I hate carrying change around.

 

Well, the 5 cent coin is 1mm thick, $2 coin is 3mm thick.
When I was in high school, we used to glue two 5 cent coins together and use a gold paint pen to colour it in to make it look like a $2 coin. Then we used to buy food/drinks from the school canteen. Worked for ages, till we got caught. Was the first time we had done it Mr Principle...........honest.

 

The funny thing is if they stopped making $1 notes and you had to start using $1 coins, you would adapt to them really quickly and would not worry about them.
I was around when they brought the $2 coin out in 1988. I remember everyone having a sook about it, complaining that they hate change and this will be more change to carry around ect............When they were in full circulation and there were no more $2 notes, no one ever mentioned much more about it. Funny that. What are you going to do, not accept a $2 coin as change from a $5 note? We got rid of the 1 cent and 2 cent coins here in the early 90's. Everything gets rounded up to the nearest 5 cents now.

 

Great.. just great. This is going to throw Steve's whole system out of whack!

http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=138448

 

just more weight to our pockets

 

i feel bad for the guys with money clips...

 

Do you think that this series will be collectable?

 

Depends on how many they mint of course...

 

Have you noticed the frenzy over the statehood quarters? If you realize the issue periods for those are nearly over (two more years), you get an idea about the mint's thinking. I think they have hit on a very smart marketing tool and people will follow these almost as well as the quarters.

I'll probably do the same as I have with the quarters, collect one decent (uncirculated) set and a couple each out of my pocket as I get them as change.

For real collecting I personally prefer the older dollar coins, silver eagles and proof sets. I'm still amazed at the feeling I get when I look at and hold a dollar coin from close to or more than 100 years ago!

 

im a coin collector but its a boreing thing to do