New US $1 Coins - Now With Wives!

I doubt these will catch on for the most part. Dollar coins haven't been very popular in the US historically because they're so similar to quarters in size (and before the "gold" coins came out, design as well) that people get confused when they got dollar coins at all.

Plus people are so used to one dollar bills that it's hard for most of us to accept a coin of the same value (particularly as coins are very inconvenient to carry around in large amounts. You try carrying around $10 in change sometime, vs. ten $1 bills, and you'll see what I mean lol).

The only place I've seen dollar coins at all either is change at the Post Office when I'm buying stamps and use a large bill. I suppose banks use them, but I haven't seen it at all yet really there (they usually just give me notes rather than coins, but I usually don't ask for change either).

If they really want to do this stuff, they should just revamp the quarter, since those are the most popular US coins to use for transactions.

And on this note, they should get rid of the 50 cent coin too (if they haven't already that is). I think this coin is even more useless than a dollar coin, again, thanks to the quarter.

Jam it back in, in the dark.