They made it the same size as the Susan B!? Idiots! So this one, too will feel just like a quarter. Not a small consideration for the blind, even if vending machines can tell them apart.
Also, it’s just too small for a dollar. Damn it, I still feel the cognitive dissonance I experienced as a child from the fact that a nickel is bigger than a dime. It’s just wrong somehow. Unnatural, perverted. A con game by the government. A ruse by the mint, that everyone just accepts. One more thing demonstrating that the universe is an arbitrary and disordered place. This was when I started to doubt the existence of a God.
And I’ll bet the damn thing feels like it’s made of tin foil. The dollar should be heavier than the quarter, too. Anything else is just…unnatural.
I like the idea of Sacajewea on the dollar, but it should be slightly larger than a quarter (we can ignore halfs, nobody uses them anyway), a bit heavier, and should have some kind of impression on it that makes it easy to tell it from the quarter by touch. How about a hole in the middle like those old Chinese coins? Then if we went to a $2, we could have two holes, etc. The subtracted material would compensate for the otherwise increased cost of making them bigger than the previous denomination, and the cosmic order would return to our forsaken world.
FTR: The sackie is about the same size as a susie, but it is slightly larger than a quarter. If you’re blind there is an easy way to distinguish a sackie from a quarter: The quarter has a textured edge and the sackie has a smooth edge.
I like the idea of Sacagawea on the sackie. For one thing, she gives us the cool slang term! Aslo, I like the idea of having a 15-year-old unwed mother on our currency.
It’s small because razzafrazzin’ 'Murcans insist that they don’t want it to be “too big”.
And, to be perfectly frank, I can tell a SBA from a quarter by touch, instantly. It took me – oh – all of about thirty seconds of practice. The Sacajawea should be even easier.
John W. Kennedy
“Compact is becoming contract; man only earns and pays.”
– Charles Williams
Kallikak, I think her name tag said. I know I don’t have the spelling right but if you know about the Jutes, you know about the whatever their names are.
Well, I’m constantly asking the Germans why they bother using (and minting) their Pfennige which are now worth exactly 1/2 cent. And they glare at me when I don’t wait 30 secs. for them to give me my “change”. Well they’re history with the introduction of the euro coins and bills in 2 years, anyway.
