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engtech · 2 years ago

we have $1 and $2 coins in canada..


get's pretty annoying fast.



The vending machines jumped up to $1-$2 pretty much immediately after the switch as well.

MG Siegler · 2 years ago

yeah, used to go to summer camp up in canada, I was quite fond of the 'twonie'.

Robert · 2 years ago

Fewer bills. They would have to re-print fewer bills.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

What are you a retard? Price fixing vending machines, and increasing fares for mass transit? Why don't you just pass a law saying we have to carry 20 of them around all day everyday too while you're at it.

zaz · 2 years ago

I moved to the US about a year ago from Canada and I really miss the loonie and toonie. I actually miss the 2 dollar bill Canada had before the toonie but the 1 dollar bill is useless....especially the ones in the US. It seem everyone I have had is flimsy and old. They are almost ready to fall apart.


The biggest reason I had to like the coins is I save my change at the end of the day. I put it all in a container then I add it up whenever I get a chance. It wasn't uncommon for me to have over 200 dollars. Mostly thanks to the coins.



There is no way I would carry around that much change but a few bucks here and there don't weigh you down that much.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

You, along with the US mint, are idiots.


The ONLY reason the susy-B failed was because it WAS THE SAME SIZE AS A QUARTER. Yeah yeah, spare me the "but it's a tenth of an inch larger" argument -- nobody cares if it's a tenth of an inch; people voted with their feet and wallets already!



What did the mint do? Did they learn anything? OF COURSE NOT!



So they introduced another dollar bill coin (the sack-of-jewhatever), and it failed AGAIN. Why? BECUASE IT WAS THE SAME SIZE AS THE PREVIOUS COIN, which was the same size (almost) as the quarter!



*DUH!* And now we're in line for a FAILED third dollar coin. Why? Because again, it's the SAME SIZE as the previous FAILED dollar, which was the same size as the previous PREVIOUS failed dollar, which was the same size as the quarter.



America really is getting dumber as time goes along. Especially the mint. This new dollar is dead before it even hits the streets!

Martin · 2 years ago

Of course Europeans are used to pockets full of coins and have been for years. However, there are also getting used to chip cards in their pockets and hence a reduction in the neutral callings. Most parking meters in Amsterdam take chip cards, as will public transport and an increasing number of vending machines, alongside small stores for small amounts.
So maybe this is an opportunity to skip coins and move straight on to electronic money.jhkjs

Dave · 2 years ago

The easiest way to make the dollar coin popular is to stop printing bills. It would be a smart move.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

This will only work well if they start producing larger quantities in distribution of the $2 bill.


Why not update and kill the penny while we're at it too. Seriously. They're so annoying.

James · 2 years ago

But what do you tip strippers with.

ear1grey · 2 years ago

Q: why not split the difference and make them all $1?
A: Because there's no incentive to make a loss, so loading cheaper drinks into a machine where there's no price differentiation maximises profit. The drinks that cost >$1 will disappear, or become $2. Electronic micropayments are the future for such systems, not coins.

frosted · 2 years ago

Pop? POP?! It's SODA.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Yes, we have the $1 & $2 coins here in Canada, and contrary to engtech's thoughts, many people like them.


Finally a wad of bills is worth something (not filled with useless $1's and $2's), and when you open your change jar, you can get a pizza and a couple of movies - how fun is that?



On a side note? Strippers love them as the minimum tip automatically becomes $5 - except for the cheap American tourists!

Anonymous · 2 years ago

err, ok we've had 1 and 2 dollar coins in australia since 1984. they are not at all annoying to carry and we found an easy way to guarantee their acceptance. we phased out the one and two dollar notes completely!


easy!



then we made all our notes out of plastic so they would last longer.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

they need to elliminate all currency under $1

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Guess we will have to make an act in about 8 years legalising the slaining of privous president in order to keep this running

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The main issue I have with dollar coins is that they are too close in size/weight to quarters, so I tend to spend them like quarters, or else I think I grabbed a quarter (say for a parking meter), but I actually have the dollar coin. Having more machines accept the dollar coin would help with the first problem, but not the second.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

This is dumb. Of course no one will adopt this coin. Making it more "collectible" isn't going to be the fix either.


The real solution is pretty simple: stop printing $1 bills. That's all the government has to do if they want us to adopt the coin. Until that happens, it doesn't matter what is done to the dollar coin, it won't get used until the bills run out.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Are you some kind of idiot?

Anonymous · 2 years ago

ummm......don't print the dollar bills and the coins will be accepted! Doesn't seem like rocket science to me!

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The vending machine suggestion is flawed on many different levels.


As for getting it accepted, its really a simple solution:

GET RID OFF THE PAPER 1$.



You think people in Canada are thrilled to carry coins like in the middle ages? You know how they came around to accepting this change?

They got rid of the ones then later the two dollar bills and people had no choice to use coins.



Hell, every year or so they throw out an opinion bubble to see if people wouldnt mind 5 dollar coins.

CS · 2 years ago

The only way to really make it work is to stop printing dollar bills. And we should get rid of pennies, which cost more than $.01 to make!

Wasabisan · 2 years ago

I say get rid of everything under a quarter and have just two coins. quarter and dollar. Of course they have to be different sizes, shapes, etc.

Dave · 2 years ago

You want something that'd help a dollar coin be successful? How about doing away with the paper dollar when they introduce the coin?


They did that for the $1 and $2 bills in Canada. Seems like it'd work her too, and kind of a no brainer.

milktoast · 2 years ago

The easiest way to get the dollar coin accepted is to eliminte the paper dollar.


If there were no paper dollars then everyone from a single person to the soda machine companies pretty much would have to accept them.



What is so hard about that?

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I've always liked the large value coins when I travel, like the pound and two pound coins in England. One coin could buy a beer.
Your reason for the the dollar coin saving the gov't money is wrong though.

The gov't dosent pay for the production of curency directly, the federal reserve does. it is a private bank. It is no more a government institution than FedEx.

But the gov't does pay for currency in the long run through intrest.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I just got back from Switzerland, where they have coins for Swiss Franks in .5, 1, 2, and 5 denominations, and then bills for 10,20,100 SF. Worked perfectly fine for me.


It would be less annoying to carry the new coins if we get rid of the penny and nickel and just round everything to the dime.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I'm a Canadian male who is tired of carrying 9 dollars in 20 oz. of metal in my pocket.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The real reason for these to be widely accepted is that there's a president on the coin. We don't like insignificant politically correct figures on the legal tender of the nation.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I'm currently an exchange student in Germany, and I notice that E.U. coins have several advantages. First, there are 1,2,5,10,20,50 cent coins, and 1 and 2 euro coins. These are far more usefull than a 25 cent and a 1 dollar (although the 1 and 2 cents are not, in my mind, so usefull). I suspect the lack of a useable 50 cent coin contributes. And the fact that European wallets (for men) have coin pockets helps.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Of course, the fed reserve banks could always create less money instead of devaluing the dollar to the point that a $1 bill is too expensive to print. Pennies are already worth more as metal than as currency too.


http://www.nowandfutures.com/key_stats.htmlds

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Easy. Stop printing one dollar bills.

The Cocktail Party · 2 years ago

Did you just honestly suggest that the federal government should get involved in fixing the price of soda?


Nor should they be involved in setting state tolls or city fares.



Dollar coins will not work as long as inflation is kept in check, you can simply buy too much stuff with a dollar.



That said I will probably try to collect them all, which will only straighten the dollar by removing species from the market.

Steven · 2 years ago

I thought the annoying part of the Sacajawea coin was easily confused with the quarter because it had a similar diameter. It seems like the golden color would have been enough to distinguish it but that was not always the case.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Granted it would take a machine refit, but I think that they shouldn't make it the same size as the last dollar coin. Part of its downfall was that its size was also similar to a quarter. The same problem led to the downfall of the old Susan B. Anthony Dollars. Its a pain to have to drag out all your change to make sure you have hold of the dollar coin.

girlieq3 · 2 years ago

your obviously not canadian because it's called a "toonie"... yes, like cartoon... and the loonie is one, because it has a loon on it.. though there are many circulation collectors editions.


You're already carrying around other change, its only a couple bucks.. and its not like you're carrying around a roll of $1 coins, but 4 at the most because then you have a $5 bill. I find it much more convienient, plus your paper money all looks the same, so its easily identifiable. As for prices going up, thats not true, becaue there are still dimes and pennies and what not. It just means you haVe one more kind of coin kicking around and one less kind of bill. I know i still have both a 35 and 40 cent pop machine by my house..

Dennis · 2 years ago

Here in Boston we've just adopted a "Charlie Ticket" system similar to NY's Metro Card for our subways. It was a pain in the ass at first, but I'm glad to say it's working out great. Ticket vending machines give change with $1 coins, and bus rides are a buck, which is a lot easier than fumbling with dollar bills, espescially on a bus.

@ · 2 years ago

gthose ideas are pretty retarded and here's why.


NO commercial company is going to lower their price of product period. if they are already getting $1.50 from you for a soda they will not reduce the price to a dollar.



Tolls are another thing that will not go down.



So in all reality you're asking for prices across the board to go up just so you won't have to do some basic math calculations such as adding.



You're like that annoying overachieving kid in class who asks for more homework or if you can answer everything in essay format.



You sir, should be punched. Very Very hard, somewhere soft.

Sam · 2 years ago

.. that would be 'toonie' ..

Chris · 2 years ago

The dollar coin would work if they released a $20, 10, and 5 coin. When you go to the post office and use a $20 dollar bill for stamps, you get all those dollar coins back and it isn't really too great to hold 15 heavier pieces of metal.


Our paper money system works because we don't have to hold 100 1$ dollar bills to actually have $100. We can have two 50's or five 20's or whatever. You[the mint] can't just shit a new standard out and not complete the thought.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The US Treasury puts too much stock in public opinion. I'm tired them running out a dollar coin every few years and when people say "waah, we don't like it" they stop minting them. Make a dollar coin, stop printing dollar bills and be done with it!


Protest the income tax!

Lukstr · 2 years ago

Its official name is the "Toonie," a portmanteau of Two and Loonie (our $1 coin). I'd go mad if we didn't have $1 and $2 coins, but then again we don't have $1 or $2 bills.

ringey · 2 years ago

It would also help if they would reduce the production of paper dollars, so people are forced to use the coins for tender rather than hoarding them. The state quarters wouldn't be in circulation now if they had continued minting the old quarter design at the same time--nearly everyone would have hoarded the new ones and spent the old ones. Also, you're really hot.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

or maybe we could just use digital forms? I wouldn't carry coins even if the subways, tolls and vending machines accepted them...

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The problem with the $1 coin has never been lack of collector interest.


The coin is simply inconvenient!



It is too heavy and too big.



This new $1 coin will share those terminal flaws and will also fail.

A-c-e · 2 years ago

Coins weigh alot and you will see the jump in vending machines and such. There is talks in Canada right now that they are going to get rid of the penny all together and make them worth 5 cents... This will jump prices up again, because $3.21 will now be $3.25... So hang on to your pennies.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The twonie and the 2-euro coin are the finest achievements in the history of currency. But I'm sure it will be decades before we in the U.S. catch on, and by then inflation will have ruined its convenience value.

Michael G · 2 years ago

Does anyone have change in their pocket Right now? I doubt it. No one uses change. This Dollar coin will only be used in the display case, and stolen by my kid when he wants a candy bar from the store.


Get rid of the penny before adding a new coin

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I don't get your point about paper currency being more readily accepted than coins. The fact is that all currency is equally accepted, by law. I never have problems spending dollar coins, or even half dollars.

Sam · 2 years ago

Why round up the price of things across the nation just so that we get to carry heavy coins in our pocket. Can you imagine carrying around 20 or 30 bucks in coins?

Nick · 2 years ago

In the UK we've always had £1 coins, the concept of not having them seems weird to me. It makes splitting up big money from small money easier - if it's a note you know it's at least £5. I never have more than abut £5 in my pocket at any one time

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I never understood why it is that the government has to "sell" people on using $1 coins, or how they have "failed" in the past. Just stop making $1 bills. Simple as that. It may take 5 years, but if you just keep taking them out of circulation people won't have a choice.


I'm from Canada and I don't mind the coins at all. Neither Europe nor Canada have a bill smaller than 5, and it works quite well. I find small denomination notes to be much more of a pain.



Now if we can just get rid of the penny...

Anonymous · 2 years ago

This is hardly a new concept. In the UK we changed from a Pound Note to a Pound Coin in 1983. It took a total of 5 years for the demise of the pound note but we have never looked back. Vending machines are a way of life and I thing it must be easier carrying dollar coins than a pocket full of dimes & quarters! Maybe it is time for you guys on the other side of the pond to see the light. We do have the £2 coin too which has its uses but the £1 is much better than the notes used to be.

Airencracken · 2 years ago

WTF is pop?

Anonymous · 2 years ago

But what will happen to all the strippers? Won't they be getting bruises by guys tossing one's. Also, won't they need to get saddle bags so they can put all the coins in? Why doesn't anyone think about the strippers?

Anonymous · 2 years ago

the fedgov doesnt have any control over vending machine prices or municipal transport fees.


your idea is one of those ideas that only works if everyone works together, which never happens.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

George Washington looks pissed off. In England, the pound coin is roughly the same size as the 10p coin, but different colors and thickness. I have no problem distinguishing them from each other at all.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Pop is mid-western for Soda. I'm from western PA where its called pop, but live in CA where its called soda.


In the south, they call all soda, "Coke."



Go figure.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The problem isn't that the coins weren't interesting enough, it was that people were collecting them instead of spending them. People need an incentive to carry and spend them instead of treating them as collectors' items.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

in the UK we have been using the £1 coin since 1983 when they removed the £1 note from circulation. No problem there, as said previously, if they remove the notes from circulation then the $1 coin WILL have to be used. It's a no brainer.


And here in the UK it's POP not SODA.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

The best-case scenario: they're trying to phase out the dollar, because they get passed around a lot and get torn up more quickly.


Solution: Coin, or plastic money.



The worst-case scenario: They're trying to make anonymous cash more inconvenient so that more people will use electronic, traceable money, like debit and credit cards.



The government has a strong interest in seeing where people spend their money. Don't put this past them!

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I don't understand why North Americans are so against coins. In my country we would like the $5 note replaced with a coin.

MG Siegler · 2 years ago

Thanks everyone for the comments (even the ones calling me an idiot).


For the record I was just throwing out some ideas, I realize that tolls and SODA (I'm originally from Ohio where we called it 'pop') companies most likely will never lower prices if need be to implement my suggestion, but perhaps they wouldn't be opposed to using $1 increments (which would suck).



Also my apologies to all the Canadians who pointed out that I misspelled 'Toonie'...I thought you could spell it both ways.



What does everyone think the eventual nickname will be of this new American dollar coin? Evil heads, since all the Presidents look evil on the front?

FBoMI · 2 years ago

How about - stop printing the $1 bill... that would get people using the coin...


And give the coin out at every government office/agency as change instead of $1 bills.



They have the means to change the currency - if they have the will...

Scott · 2 years ago

Why don't they just stop printing dollar bills? That would be a pretty good way of making people accept the dollar coin. "You want a dollar? Here's a coin. You don't want a coin? Tough!" It's not like the government has been shy about forcing things on us in the past. Why are they so sheepish on this issue?

Scott Gentzen · 2 years ago

The problem with the collector angle is that collectors collect coins...they're not out there spending them. It's still a failure if there are more of them sitting in some kid's drawer than there are out being paid out and spent.


I have a folder that I'm using to collect one each of the state quarters but I spend them all over the place because they're common.



I think I might have a Sacagawea dollar sitting in a drawer somewhere. I spend them when I get them but the only place I ever get them without specifically asking for them is out of the vending machines at the post office.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

You are an idiot. Split the difference between 1.00 and 1.50? Sure the government should make a law so you can only sell soda in $1 increments, dont let the free market decide the price. Subway fares in $1 increments? $2 is a lot more per day then 1.25, you gonna me the extra $.75/day to get to work?

Anonymous · 2 years ago

what's that aboot with the canadians, eh?

Valkyrie123 · 2 years ago

NO BRAINER to a former fast food cashier.
The reason the odd coins and bills fail has nothing to do with convince to the shopper. It has everything to do with the till in the cash register at the store you are shopping at. There is simply no place to put odd coins or bills. There are compartments in the drawer for $1, $5, $10, $20 bills and pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. 4 compartments for bills, 4 for change. There is no place to put odd coins or bill except under the drawer and that is where they die, out of sight, out of mind. The size of the bill section is fixed by the size of the bills. The change compartments simply mimic the bill compartments in width. Change the cash register till if you want to add coins. Good luck.

Valkyrie123 · 2 years ago

And now I have to quote Red from “That 70’s Show” for all the people at the US Mint for not figuring this out sooner and having to learn it from a former fast food cashier.
“Dumb Ass!”

Harry · 2 years ago

I don't know about you guys, but have you ever tried to give a stripper a $1 coin? There's really only one place to put it and last time that got me thrown out of the club. Stick with the dollar bills, who needs trees anyway?

Xircuits · 2 years ago

I think the $1 and $2 are smart choices if machines in America were standardized. I have stacks of quarters in my closet because I have to do laundry every week and feeding the machine anywhere between $1.50 to $4.00 in quarters is really annoying. Not to mention, wouldn't it be great if you could go to the parking meter and just feed it $1 and stay there for an hour when you need to? Except you have to feed it quarters only every 10-30 minutes. I'm not saying get rid of all the quarter based machines, I'm just saying, expand it. Have it accept dollar coins too.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Harry, I've given lots of strippers tips with a dollar coin. It's very common in canada. They take it from you by squeezing it with their tits.


Also, I use dollar coins everyday in vending machines here in the states. Ones that don't accept them are very rare.



Dollar bills are dumb, I wish the states used coins like canada. I don't need my wallet full of dollar bills.. The lowly dollar deserves to ride freely in the bottom of my pocket, with the pennies, nickles, quarters and dimes.

Harry Casimir · 2 years ago

Wow. Great work in this piece. I truly agree with you. One thing for sure that would help is if the government could actually get those vending machines to be at set prices ($1 increment). With that, we would not have so much problem anyway.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

NO CHANGE (pun intended.) Period.


Coins suck.



Paper money is sooo much more convenient.



I had to endure two years (while living in canadaland) of using a coin purse. It sucked: my pants hung off-kilter, and people take **forever** to drag their purse out to count $4.35 with (seemingly) hundreds of coins.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

jesus, people are annoying. make like new zealand: get rid of the penny and nickel, and then get yourselves some coins of various sizes and weights - including a $2 coin. make your shitty paper bills with plastic like australia, add some colour, change their sizes, get rid of the useless $1 and $2 bills, and smarten the hell up. cripes.

Chris · 2 years ago

....retarded logic

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Coins that don't work in vending machines are worthless.


Coins that are the same size increase errors and are bad for use in the dark and by vision impared or blind people.



A new dollar coin has no substantial advantage over the already existing 50 cent coins and it's less useful than quarters which work in all vending machines.



That said, stop minting the penny and nickle they cost more to make than they're worth. Drop the $1 bill and just print more $2 bills.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

DOLLARS AND TOWNIES WORK IN CANADA! it'll work in America, and yes i agree with the poeple who said.. Just stop printing the dollar bills.. there old and useless in some ways.

Henry Finn · 2 years ago

Honestly is this a joke? Yeah, hey lets just get vending operators to change all their prices so the government can save some spare change on minting. Oh and lets also switch all the trasnportation fares around too, in New York the bus costs $1 while in Burlington it costs $2, so we will just make that a $1.50 for the entire U.S.! Yay!
You lack a basic understadning of not only economics but how the entire world works. I am sorry for being so harsh, but this is one of the most poorly researched articles I have ever seen written by someone who lacks Basic knowledge of their subject.

Also, by printing a new president every so often all they are doing is raising collectors interests, it does not look like the American mint has any intention for these new coins to be widley circulated.

Please do some reading and rewrite this article.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

For the fools who are complaining about carrying $30 worth of $1 coins in their pocket, let me ask you -- when was the last time you carried $30 in $1 bills? Who is stupid enough to do so?


You carry 20s, 10s, fivers. Here in Australia we have $1 and $2 coins, and when your pocket gets a little heavy you spend those coins first before pulling out a note.



Frankly I find it ironic you guys are complaining about coins being the same size, when all your notes look almost the same. How do you differentiate between a 10 dollar bill and a 100 in low light?

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Dude - why would I want items/services that are currently under $1 to be raised in price just to accommodate some stupid coin?


Douche!

Anonymous · 2 years ago

WTF is pop?

Anonymous · 2 years ago

A lot of pub gigs and fundraisers in Oz ask for 'a gold coin donation', that is, $1 or $2. Worth something, easy to account for, and much like a token. Good for buskers, too. An aside: the Aussie $2 coin is one of the smallest in the 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1 range.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

i've seen better arguments come out of six year olds. you really have no grounding for why this will work any better than past attempts. so the collectors will like them... big deal that doesn't help them circulate if anything that is a hindrance.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

No one is going to need this coin to pay for a toll or a ride on the bus. Most urban areas are converting to RF based systems for rapid drive through toll collection and most mass transit systems have switched to fare cards (some that take autodeposit from your bank or credit card). In addition to making it really easy to get through quickly these systems cut way back on theft of the toll coins and fares by public employees which was really rampant (especially here in Illinois). Good riddance.

writer · 2 years ago

So what was the problem with publishing my comment? Don't want people to get an education about the Federal Reserve?


Previously submitted but not published:



The article's author writes, "I think the government is failing to realize that even though the coins could save them money in the long run (since they would have to re-print less bills),. . ."



What on earth would make you think that the government is the least bit interested in saving money?



The government has no money, but instead takes yours via direct and hidden taxes. Since it is spending YOUR money and not its own, perhaps that is why government wastes money on all manner of nonsense.



The government doesn't print the money, instead it generously pays the Federal Reserve (a private corporation) to do that, in violation of the Constitution. The government pays the printing costs, plus the face value of the bill, plus interest. How's that for a deal? If it was interested in saving money it could say trillions upon trillions by obeying the Constitution and printing its own money.



Do some research on the Federal Reserve. Read the Creature From Jekyll Island, written by G. Edward Griffin. Use Google and Yahoo to do some research on the Federal Reserve.



Also look up "I want the earth plus 5%" and "CAFR" (Certified Annual Financial Report). Wow aren't you going to get a surprise and an education!



P.S. Congress is about to approve an ADDITIONAL $140 BILLION for the Iraq war.

Tristan · 2 years ago

we have $1 and $2 coins in australia, it works brilliantly, cos the coins are so small they are hardly a pain to carry around at all.

3drcpilot · 2 years ago

The series is just another money maker for the mint. People will think they are worth saving, and they will. Each pres. issue this year will have a mintage of 300M plus the Sac gets another 400M for 07. That's 1.6B that's going to sit around doing nothing while the BEP lobbies 'save the dollar rag'. Until that paper dollar is 86'ed the dollar coin is DOA. Didn't the Sac, SBA and Ike teach us anything?


What would help is to turn the coin size for the half into a five spot. Then things will happen. Little OT here,,, lose the cent while your at it. It's already worth more than face, (so is the 5C) and when that happens people start hoarding. Which means we gotta print more money. ARRRGGG!!!!

Anonymous · 2 years ago

Just pull the one dollar paper note from circulation and people will have no choice about it. That's what practically every other country on the globe has done.

engtech · 2 years ago

If I'd know this was getting dugg I would have written FIRST POST!@#!@$%!

MG · 2 years ago

Ha ha, nice.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

That's right. The way for a government to make their coins more acceptable to the populace is to regulate the price of soda.


What the !#*? are you smoking?????

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I don't see why you'd complain about coins being similar when all your paper money is the same size and colour.

Motorcycle Guy · 2 years ago

Those are some pretty good arguments. I like the idea of simply being able to pay for a soft drink with one coin instead of having to find 6 quarters for a $1.50 machine or fumble to feed in two dollar bills. Sounds like a great idea to me.

Ted · 2 years ago

I stopped in a pub last night on my way home from work. Somehow or other, the subject of discussion turned to the new dollar coin. The concensus of the guys was that it wouldn't work. The reason was that guys couldn't fasten a dollar coin around the g-strings of exotic dancing girls! The women in the pub didn't venture an opinion.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

In japan as well we have dollar (or 100 yen coins) as well as 5 dollar coins - or 500 yen
to be specific- and they were the most convienient things I ever used. many vending machines cost 100 yen, and as for the 500 yen coin, it could buy you a meal, and you keep in in your coin purse. seriously, much more convinient than dollar bills.

Anonymous · 2 years ago

I will not use this coin, because it omits "In God we trust".

danny · 1 year ago

Wow, lots of things to write about here.
1. Yeah, I love dollar coins lets do like Canada and get rid of our 1 dollar bill.

2. A lot of people cite the reason, strippers. Well, unlike Canada, lets keep our 2 dollar bill as a paper bill. Theres already enough of them, contrary to popular belief, there is hundreds of millions going around. This way at most, you would only have to carry one at a time.

3 Get rid of the penny, I hate that thing. To do this, every time the bank gets some, just destroy them. Thats how we got rid of 500 and greater notes.

4. The new coins do say in god we trust, it is written on the side.

Anonymous · 1 year ago

Everyone keeps making reference to the new dollar coins being the size of quarters. Actually they are larger than the Susan B Anthony dollar and they are GOLD, how can you mess that up?


I hate carrying around dollar bills. I wish they would quit making dollar bills, increase 2 dollar bills and then the coins would come into play.