Sacajawea is dead.

[Ishmael]

Well, it's been a few years since our elected officials have attempted to foist another loser of a dollar coin on us.

Sacajawea is dead and buried, right along with Susan B. Anthony. Good riddance I say.

There are probably many reasons that the coin failed.

My take is simple. I play 'liars' poker. You can pick up a game of it in any tavern or lounge in the US. Great way to pass the time when on a business road trip or just a slow night. But you can't play the game with a coin, and $5 liars poker can get expensive real fast.

Ishmael

 

[red_rose]

Coin money is for sissies....

*runs from the Canadians...*

 

[Private Vasquez]

not to mention the fact that those fuckers are a bit more heavy than a bill.

 

[MissTaken]

Wow, Ish!

That is deep!


I will need to do some research and consider your thoughts carefully before replying.


Errrrr When are they coming out with the MissTaken 3 dollar bill?

 

[WriterDom]

Dollar coins would save a lot of money. But it would only work if they stopped making dollar bills, and destroyed more of what they have. It's kinda like Alabama putting metric mile markers up on their highways, but leaving the English ones up also. After a few years, all the metric ones came down.

I only got one coin back in change.

 

[Ishmael]

I was wondering if anyone really gave a shit.

The other day I bought stamps at the post office from one of their machines and got a handful of these miserable coins as change.

So, I tried to spend them. No dice. The shopkeepers refused to take them. So I asked why?

The customers won't accept them as change. So they have to be wrapped and deposited. Both of which are a pian in the ass to a shopkeeper.

Writerdom is right. But I think their would be a general uprising if the politico's were to try to eliminate the dollar bill. As a matter of fact, they knew this so that's why they tried the 'phase in' approach.

Considering this is the second time in a generation you would think the idiots would learn and go about more important business.

Ishmael

PS, I don't know about a 'Three dollar bill' MissT. But I would like to see the two dollar bill come back.

 

[TantaLiza]

Dollar coins...

I work in a small specialty store...we get them at least once a week...even have a customer who give us "tips" with them when we find or retrieve something for him...it's cool! I also save the other girls the hassle of sending them in the deposit...I grab them when I have the cash...needless to say, I'm getting a stash going of them!! At least my kid will have a small inheritance...lol

Liza

 

[morninggirl5]

We're a nation of traditionalists. The currency we use has worked just fine for hundreds of years and we see no good reason to change it.

Somehow, even as we grow older we retain that childlike view that bills are more money than change. Ask any 5 or 6 year old if they want 5 quarters or 1 dollar and they'll always take the dollar.

 

[bornagainvirgin]

Tantaliza, Do you need anymore?

I work in a small specialty store...we get them at least once a week...even have a customer who give us "tips" with them when we find or retrieve something for him...it's cool! I also save the other girls the hassle of sending them in the deposit...I grab them when I have the cash...needless to say, I'm getting a stash going of them!! At least my kid will have a small inheritance...lol

Hi tantaliza, I have a big collection of those dollar coins. What would a sexy little thing like you give for them? ;-)

 

[Coralee]

Perhaps if the U.S. government approached the implementation of the dollar coin like the Canadian government it could be effective.

Once the decision had been made that a dollar coin ( and later a two dollar coin) was cheaper than the bills, they decided to introduce them regardless of public opinion.

A lot of Canadians didn't like the coins (and still don't) but since there is no other alternative we use them.

Like a lot of issues the Canadian government deals with, their approach seems to be: we've decided to do such and such. Oh, you don't like it? Too fucking bad! Get used to it!

Isn't democracy wonderful?

Coralee

 

[TantaLiza]

Re: Tantaliza, Do you need anymore?

Hi tantaliza, I have a big collection of those dollar coins. What would a sexy little thing like you give for them? ;-) [/B]

Well Sugar...maybe we'll just have to see what we can work out????

Kisses for now...

Liza

 

[Wrong Element]

I think the dollar coins may have had a chance of catching on if parking meters accepted them. Otherwise, though, it's a lot easier to simply deal with bills. And compared to what the government wastes on a routine basis, the additional expense really isn't all that outrageous.

 

[Spinaroonie]

Wow. When did this happen?

 

[badasschick]

So what are the Postage and Subway Token vending machines going to give back for change now?

 

[Weevil]

Well, it's been a few years since our elected officials have attempted to foist another loser of a dollar coin on us.

Sacajawea is dead and buried, right along with Susan B. Anthony. Good riddance I say.

There are probably many reasons that the coin failed.

My take is simple. I play 'liars' poker. You can pick up a game of it in any tavern or lounge in the US. Great way to pass the time when on a business road trip or just a slow night. But you can't play the game with a coin, and $5 liars poker can get expensive real fast.

Ishmael

I don't get it I thought conservatives liked saving money?

I know, the strippers don't like the change, do they?

 

[JazzManJim]

I kind of liked the coin. It was pretty, spent well, and seemed fairly practical.

The only problem I have with dollar coins is the same problem I have when I'm in Canada. It's a pure pain in the ass to have to walk around with a hip pocket full of coins after you're been shopping at a couple different places.

 

[lobito]

I didn't mind them at all, and yeah you get them from the postage machines, and metro train here too.

I think I'd rather have a dollar coin here in the U.S. like many countries do, than a dollar bill.

 

[berkley2955]

We're a nation of traditionalists. The currency we use has worked just fine for hundreds of years and we see no good reason to change it.

Somehow, even as we grow older we retain that childlike view that bills are more money than change. Ask any 5 or 6 year old if they want 5 quarters or 1 dollar and they'll always take the dollar.

Let me throw my two-bits worth in ( thats a quarter if you don't know) First of all the U.S. has only existed for just over two hundred years and in the beginning coinage was minted first by private assayers and then by the treasury department ( to assure accurate gold weight ) Paper money or tender was not used until later when the government started to stockpile gold and offered "bearer certificates" or the folding money we have become so fond of. As for present day... I think the penny should be dropped and dollar coins put into regular usage. Hell just how much is a dollar worth anymore anyway.

 

[sigh]

Coins, bills...it doesn't really matter to me. 90-odd percent of what I purchase is paid for with plastic. Then I pay off that single bill each month. It'd be 100 percent if every place would accept it.

 

[Lost Cause]

I wouldn't mind another five dollar silver/gold piece (American). It could have freakin' OJ on it as far as I'm concerned. I just like the heft, and durability of a American coin.

 

[Private Vasquez]

I don't think we could do away with the penny. What do we do when the total is $2.17?

 

[Marxist]

Let me throw my two-bits worth in ( thats a quarter if you don't know) First of all the U.S. has only existed for just over two hundred years.

Our government is older than Germany, Italy, or France. As a culture we're young, as a country we're middle-aged.

 

[freakygirl]

Ask any 5 or 6 year old if they want 5 quarters or 1 dollar and they'll always take the dollar.

I wish my daughter was still this way.. I taught her about money.. now she wants the 5 quarters.. not the dollar

 

[teddybear4play]

Sacajawea is dead and buried, right along with Susan B. Anthony. Good riddance I say.

My only problem with the coin was who they put on it. I can think of 10 better people to put on it than Sacagawea.

And I actually like vending machines that will give me back dollar coins instead of a dollar's worth of quarters and nickels.

TB4p

 

[InnocentAngel81]

i got a few of them as change the other day from the train ticket machine, i felt all special.