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New US $1 Coins - Now With Wives!
So I'd heard about the new $1 coins featuring a president of the US every 3 months in an effort to boost the popularity and usage of the ill-received dollar coin, but this is the first I heard about the additional measure to feature coins with the accompanying first ladies:
Also, I intend to use the new $1 coins. I try to use the Sacagawea dollars (and succeed best when around vending machines), but it's just so difficult to spell Sacagawea that it could never work between us. How ya doing, buddy? |
Yay! More coins for my collection!
My father is a trucker and goes to the states often, he brings back the collecteor 25 cent coins for me. I have a map of the USA where you place the coin on the state it represents. I am close to having it completed. There's nowhere I can't reach. |
Aren't these just some woman who haven't done much besides marry politicians? Maybe presidential family pets could feature on a different circulation.
How ya doing, buddy? |
In the UK the pound coin has phased out the pound note, a long time ago. Whenever I've been visiting the US, it always seems vaguely strange to me to be using paper money for an amount as small as one dollar. I find it far more interesting that there are attempts currently in progress to popularise the idea of the dollar coin than these designs featuring the wives of the presidents.
I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
As for the popularity of dollar coins at all, Americans are just stubborn. Don't know why we'd be stubborn about something like dollar coins, but whaddyagonnado. We just don't think to use them most of the time, or don't like carrying change around, and it seems like cashiers never hand them out unless you ask for them (I think that's the root of the problem, personally). I was speaking idiomatically. |
Well, as far as I know, First Ladies didn't truly become politically active (to a significant extent) until Eleanor Roosevelt.
Looking forward to Checkers appearing on a coin =D What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?
Hey, maybe you should try that thing Chie was talking about.
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FELIPE NO |
Why don't they just go for the first down and put out VP $1 coins.
What, you don't want my bikini-clad body? |
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. |
There's nowhere I can't reach. |
I would have thought there would have been a better idea for a coin collector than adding the first ladies on the coins. But then again, they have used a lot of different ideas already. Next time, it might be one of the Presidents' kids (If he had any).
This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it. |
Cool idea. Too bad I don't collect.
Devo, probably because they'd go hand in hand with their significant other. Keeping with the primary theme of DEAD PRESIDENTS and now their wives. I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body? |
Maybe they'll move on to something like that once the states quarters series runs out. I don't imagine they'll want to run the states again, so they'll have to do something with the quarter.
I was speaking idiomatically. |
As for carrying around paper money worth 65 cents, that would probably make me crazy. I find it easier to handle coinage, for small amounts. For one thing, vending machines and public phones like it better than bills. What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now? |
The only thing that's cheaper here than in the States is food. And the biggest note is 100Q, which is what I mentioned earlier. Sounds kinda silly when you have to pay nearly three thousand Q for a decent cell phone.
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