# I got a "Sackie" of my own. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 21, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322 "2000-04-21T19:41:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/1 "2000-04-21T19:41:00Z")
That’s what some of us have been calling the new dollar coin. A guy showed me how to (legally) get one out of a candy machine (one of the newer models that accept/dispense Suzies and Sackies): He put a dollar bill into the bill slot, waited a few seconds, then pushed the money return button. Instead of returning the dollar bill, a Sackie came out. * * * Sig Alert! ---
**Author:** ![Suo\_Na](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/898d66/32.png) [@Suo\_Na](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suo_Na)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/2 "2000-04-21T20:21:00Z")
Why “Sackie”? I’m assuming that a “Suzie” is a Susan B. Anthony (which I had heard vending machines wouldn’t take because you can substitute a Canadian coin for them). * * * This post is made of 100% recycled electrons ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/3 "2000-04-21T20:26:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Why “Sackie”? Because there’s a picture of Sacagawea on it. 🙂 Still trying to find some more of my own, **jab** * * * “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/4 "2000-04-21T20:26:00Z")
Because the new dollar coin displays Sacajawea on the front. Therefore, “Sackie”. * * * - Blessed are the Fundamentalists, for they shall inhibit the earth. \* ---
**Author:** ![Sunshine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Sunshine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunshine)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/5 "2000-04-21T20:26:00Z")
Because the new gold coin has a picture of Sacajewea, Lewis & Clark’s Native American guide. * * * “It’s not death I fear so much as leaving something so beautiful as life.” ---
**Author:** ![Breckinshire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/71c47a/32.png) [@Breckinshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Breckinshire)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/6 "2000-04-21T20:28:00Z")
Damn the simulpost! I was too late! * * * - Blessed are the Fundamentalists, for they shall inhibit the earth. \* ---
**Author:** ![slaveone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slaveone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slaveone)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/7 "2000-04-21T20:32:00Z")
Doh! I thought this was about weed… * * * “Abba Zabba, you my only friend.” ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/8 "2000-04-21T22:22:00Z")
BTW conservative David Frum stated on a discussion panel on the history channel that the Sackie coin was “Stalinist.” He stated Sacajewa was a very minor unimportant figure in history and it is a disgrace that she would represent the country on a national $1.00 coin, “the absurdity of liberal political correctness.” ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/9 "2000-04-21T23:51:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Icerigger: > BTW conservative David Frum stated on a discussion panel on the history channel that the Sackie coin was “Stalinist.” He stated Sacajewa was a very minor unimportant figure in history and it is a disgrace that she would represent the country on a national $1.00 coin, “the absurdity of liberal political correctness.” Well, if this is true, then he’s being silly. I mean, it’s only a coin, it’s not sainthood. I’m as conservative as anybody, but I don’t see where Stalinism comes into it. Oh, well. I want a Sackie; I’ve never even seen one ☹ * * * ## Catrandom Go to a vet that’s also a taxidermist. Either way, you’ll get your cat back. _Sig courtesy of the amazing WallyM7_ ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2000, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/10 "2000-04-21T23:56:00Z")
Me neither, Catrandom. I’ve even been transacting more with cash lately, hoping I’d get one for change. No luck. Where are they all? * * * Those who do not learn from history are condemned to fail the class. --A **WallyM7** creation ---
**Author:** ![DAYIUZ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DAYIUZ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAYIUZ)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/11 "2000-04-22T00:09:00Z")
Here in the San Francisco Bay Area the best place to get them seems to be WalMart. I don’t know why, but they have a ton of them. When they first came out, I went there with a $20 and bought some gum and asked for the change in “Sackies.” I have about 30 of them in my cars’ ash tray. * * * “We’re surrounded? Good, that means we can fight them in every direction!” -Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller- Greatest Marine ever. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/12 "2000-04-22T00:12:00Z")
> [@](#): > > I want a Sackie; I’ve never even seen one Well, here’s a picture any way… [http://www.usmint.gov/goldendollar/winner.cfm](http://www.usmint.gov/goldendollar/winner.cfm) * * * “I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry Are you a turtle? ---
**Author:** ![Catrandom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7bcc69/32.png) [@Catrandom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catrandom)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/13 "2000-04-22T03:07:00Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by Johnny L.A.: > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > I want a Sackie; I’ve never even seen one > > Well, here’s a picture any way… [http://www.usmint.gov/goldendollar/winner.cfm](http://www.usmint.gov/goldendollar/winner.cfm) > > Thanks, Johnny. It’s really rather pretty, isn’t it? I quite like the eagle in flight on the back. > > Catrandom > > \*\* ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2000, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/14 "2000-04-24T13:48:00Z")
They seem to be quite prevalent here in Philly, where most people have at least seen one, but I went just up a bit to NY and everyone was amazed - some people hadn’t even heard of 'em. (Then again, maybe that’s just NY. ;)) Esprix, who loves 'em. * * * Evidently, I rock. [Ask the Gay Guy!](http://boards.straightdope.com/ubb/Forum7/HTML/001376.html) ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/15 "2000-05-03T16:20:29Z")
Over the past 35 years the dollar has lost so much of its value. I’m old enough (barely) to remember dime popsicles and eight-cent bags of potatochips at the corner liquor store in Hermosa Beach. Now a dollar is worth about 20% of what it was then. Some say even less…about a dime. Whatever. Be that as it may, I’m sick of having my wallet bulked up with paper things that are worth about $0.20. Why can’t we get with the program like most other major developed countries and switch to coins? Withdraw the $1 from circulation, I say. The Treasury department is charged with the responsibility of circulating such coins and currency that will best serve the needs of the economy, and the dollar coin does this better than the paper dollar. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/16 "2000-05-03T17:44:33Z")
I just got my first 3 yesterday. It was change for $10 on a $4 purchase (the other $3 was in Suzies). They do look pretty nice. But I also agree that this determination to put a woman, any woman, on the dollar coin is pretty stupid. There are many men whose impact on American history has been greater than even the most influential woman. How about Teddy Roosevelt or Harry Truman? Granted, women had been at a societal disadvantage for a long time through no fault of their own, but that doesn’t make sensible the desperate scramble to find a woman to put on a coin. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/17 "2000-05-03T17:49:58Z")
TROLLING – TROLLING — cmkeller. May you be the champeen moloster. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/18 "2000-05-03T21:36:03Z")
You’re pretty quick on the trigger, newbie. I’ve been posting here for over a year, and I defy any of the regulars here to label me a troll, as you just have. Feel welcome to address the assertion I made; if you think it’s invalid, I’ll hear your points. Otherwise, I stand by my statement…which was meant to comment on a statement made by Icerigger, earlier in this thread. Chaim Mattis Keller ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/19 "2000-05-03T23:10:34Z")
[I got a Sackie](http://fff.fathom.org/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000050.html), from jab1. It came in the mail last Saturday. ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322/20 "2000-05-03T23:53:29Z")
Well damn you all! I’ve been three times to the US post office, bought a small booklet of stamps from the machine with a US$20 bill, and pressed the change button. Each time I got a bunch of Susan B. Anthony dollars. When are the Sacajawea dollars coming to my neighbourhood? cmkeller, I agree with you that Sacajawea is a minor figure in american history, but since some of the american bills had obscure figures on them also (Salmon P. Chase?) I don’t think it’s so wrong to choose a woman for a coin. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-got-a-sackie-of-my-own/16322.md?page=2)