Well, today was the official release of the new Sacagawea Dollar, and I picked up about 20 at Wal-Mart, the only place you can get them.
Golden colored and star studded, the only thing I can think of is ‘will these coins make it?’ If the Susan B’s failed so horribly twenty years ago, can these last? I personally like having dollar coins myself, but will the American people accept them?
–The more I think about it, the more I appreciate the equator!
I’ve been waiting for these for a while. I love coins. I’m off to the USMint site to see if they have a pic of them.
Some the Susan B problem was that a lot of folks mistook them for quarters.
One reason these new ones have a gold tint.
The only way for a dollar coin to survive is to remove dollar bills from circulation.
Well, I’m old enuff to remember the 1979 introduction of the “Susies,” or “Carter Quarters.”
They failed mainly because they were the same shape and size as the quarter (“That’s a dollar, there. You owe me change. Yessir, that’s a dollar, see, the new dollar.”), but there were several other criticisms as well.
Feminists were upset because they thought the artist had made Anthony too pretty, but the general consensus was that her depiction was butt-ugly. She does have a bit of a hatchet-face.
For the full story, in easy-to-read comic-book form, see Paradox Press’s THE BIG BOOK OF LOSERS. Charmingly illustrated by the great Gahan Wilson.
Uke
Now how the hell are we going to get $1 coins to stay in g-strings and garters?
Uke said:
The size and shape were not the only similarities to quarters.
I think they just took GW’s portrait and added a bun.
(Don’t recall anyone ever calling him “butt-ugly,” though.) 
Mjoll:
“Butt-ugly” on a woman translates to “Rugged and distinguished” on a man.
I agree that the gummint should remove the one-dollar bills from circulation. It would’ve been a bad move in the days of the Anthony Quarters, but now it’s the only thing that makes any sense.
I think their idiots for not removing the other old (easy-to-counterfeit) bills as well, but that’s a whole nother thread…
Sure, if you give people the alternative between the “old” system (bills) and the “new” system (coins), people will stick to the old system.
That’s why metricazation failed in the U.S. – instead of saying, this is the new system, dammit, get adjusted, it’ll take you six months or a year, and then you’ll be used to it. Instead, we said, “Oh, we’ll fart around with both systems, to let people become used to the new system.” And no one learned the new system because there was no compulsion to.
“Trust inertia, it’s the most powerful force in the universe.” (I forgot who said that.)
While we’re at it, why don’t we get rid of pennies and nickles?
In case anyone’s interested, the Mint’s website is http://www.usmint.gov/ . You can’t buy an individual mint proof of the new coin yet, though. I want to buy one for my husband. He collects coins, and if I don’t get him a mint proof, he’ll be forever going through my loose change and taking the new coins. :rolleyes:
I gave him a mint set of the new quarters for Christmas, and that must have freed up $5 worth of circulating coins!
Never attribute to malice anything that can be attributed to stupidity.
– Unknown
Dext, you forgot to cite!
I believe you can attribute that information to Unca Cecil! I’m just messin with ya (though you’d better watch out for Cecil).
Change? I don’t like change! I can’t handle change! I’m much better at counting bills.
I sold my soul to Satan for a dollar. I got it in the mail.
OMIGOD MOJOLLNIR!!!
Methinks we stumbled onto a conspiracy to rid the world of gentlemen’s clubs. Call Oliver Stone! This is terrible! Where else am I going to be able to buy the $8 beers I love so much?
LOL! I think you may be right. You know, you can still get the George Washington in Drag dollar from stamp machines. So, are the new dollar coins really gold-tinted? Cool! Ever since I saw an old double eagle, I’ve wanted the U.S. to put out a new gold-colored coin. I know that the only way Canada got anyone to use the “Loony” coin was to stop printing paper $1 bills. I also remember seeing a Canadian coin that was a small gold coin surrounded by ring of silver metal. Does anyone know what amount that coin is? If the government doesn’t pull the $1 bill, the Sakajewea (sp) dollar will fail, just like the GWiD…er, SBA ( :o ) did
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Geesh I really am behind on the times…I have no idea what you guys are talking about. Another dollar coin??? Something else to toss in the coin jar. I’m having a hard enough time just collecting the state coins. I thought I was doing good…then a guy at work tells me I don’t have a true collection unless I get one from both mints…like what does that mean? And he tells me…one had the P on it and one has the D. Like I really know somebody on the west coast who is gonna collect these quarters for me.
“Do or do not, there is no try” - Yoda
I don’t know about garters, but there’s a coin slot behind that g-string.
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Here in L.A., you get Suzies from Metrolink ticket machines. Metrolink is our commuter train service. I once put in a twenty and got a ticket and fifteen Suzies. I did manage to spend all of them, though, by carefully alerting cashiers that I was using a Suzy and not a quarter. If we do get rid of paper dollars, at least George is still on the quarter.
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“P” stands for the Philadelphia Mint, “D” for the Denver Mint. Simply look at the quarters; all quarters get distributed all over the country by business travellers and tourists.
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What about vending machines? In Chgo the CTA machines and the vending machines in the CTA areas take Susan Bs. Will these new ones work?
If not is the CTA gonna have to redesign them?
Does this mean Susan Bs will be valuable as the government will have to remove not only paper ones but Susan Bs as well?