All shiny and gold. Sacajawea and papoose on the obverse a soaring eagle on the reverse. Same size as the Susan B Anthony. One bit of difference…no ridges. Will that help it last longer than dear old Susan?
My apologies Space Coyote.
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- Local Wal-Marts (St Louis area) have them and will give them as change if you ask. The checker this morning was trying hard to get me to take one (for a dollar, of course) noting that no other businesses would get them until (I think) May? or something like that. There were signs up all over the check-out area. - MC
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The obvious question here is why is Wal-Mart (WalMart, Walmart, WaLmArT or whatever…) the only place to have these coins? How did they manage to swing that and what in the world was in it for the government? “We’ll buy all of your new gold coins at $25 per roll of 20”?
Damn Wal-Mart (Wal*Mart, W4lm4®†…)
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
It won’t do any better than the Suzie! No place for it in most cash registers.
Zymurgist
I just finished reading Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage about the L&C expidition. Sacagawea was one tough cookie. A refreshing change from the dead white guys normally gracing our money.
i really hope that was sarcasm.
it’s ridiculous to think that has anything to do with how well it does. we’ve had dollar coins in canada since '87 and two dollar coins since '96, and no one ever cried about where it would go in a cash register.
“human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein
I don’t think it will last. At least, I hope it doesn’t. Cab drivers will be a lot better paid, with the change falling out of pockets in car seats and whatnot.
Truth does not change because it is, or is not, beleived by a majority of the people.
-Giordano Bruno
when we first got toonies, i hated the idea. ooh, heavier and fatter change… great! but you know, i like it now. i’m one to use bills and let my change build up, so when i finally dig through it i always have way more money than i thought i did. don’t expect me to complain about that.
“human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust; we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.” - albert einstein
I noticed the same thing, when I was in England, mega. It’s a very secure feeling to know that a pocket full of change can buy you good meal or a taxi home.
I was at a store today and saw a guy who had one. He was really excited about it because he thought the tail was stamped backwards. I bummed him out when I showed him that coins are flipped top to bottom not left to right. The wife and I had a great laugh.
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If anyone is interested, you can see the picture at http://www.usmint.com. They have a link to order them, but it kept coming back with an error when I clicked it.
I like the idea. I hope they work out, I think they could be really convenient. Next I hope they destroy all pennies!
I miss the Eisenhower dollar coins. 
“If we would have new knowledge,
we must get a world of new questions”
On my many sojourns to BC, I have come to love loonies and toonies. No more fumbling for 3 coins to get a soda-one coin, bingo! Parking, vending machines, skytrain tickets, beggars, all that stuff becomes one-coin transactions.
And I also agree with the “Gee, all I have left is change…wait, that’s sixteen dollars” phenomenon. That’s always a pleasant surprise.
I just hope that the new dollar coin is easily distinguishable. The loonie isn’t round, it has flat edges, making it easier to ID (plus its color). That was the big problem with Sooze, she was too easily mistakeable for her cousin. Did they get rid of the ridges to help blind people, you think?
-sb
They say the Lord loves drunks, fools and little children.
Two out of three ain’t bad.
I haven’t seen it… send me a few!
I would just like to come to some consensus on how to pronounce her name. I learned it as “Sack-uh-juh-WE-uh” - but when I watched PBS’s Lewis and Clark program, they had something like 8 different pronunciations, none of them sounding familiar. I’m willing to change if someone will tell me the best way to say it. “suh-Caw-guh-WAY-uh”? “suh-Caw-juh-WE-uh”? “Raymond-Luxury-Yacht”?
Or should we just come up with a cool nickname for her?
Cooper, your url should read http://www.usmint.gov . The one you gave leads to an adoption web site.
-L
Leslie Irish Evans
http://leslie.scrappy.net
Lewis and Clark, although rarely consistent, were generally pretty phonetic in their spelling. All the spellings I’ve come across (Sacagawea, Sakajawea, Sacajawea)suggest that her name was pronounced Sack-uh-juh-WE-uh. It’s still a mouthfull, though. No suprise that the men of the expedition took to calling her “Janie”.
My stepson got a couple when he went to Walmart last night. They look great, and the gold color makes them easily distinguishable for sighted people, and the rounded edge and size makes them easy to identify for everyone.
As a person who has a lot of coins fall out of their pockets on a regular basis, I think I’ll stick with folding money for a while–I don’t want to start carrying a change purse.
“It’s only common sense,
There are no accidents 'round here.”