Well, I haven’t seen one yet. And Jophiel’s post sorta took the wind out of my sails…I was hoping for a gold doubloon, too.
Why the hell can’t we have a coin as cool as the French ten-franc piece? Big and round and heavy and copper-colored. Grab a stack of those, you KNOW you’ve got hard cash in your pocket.
Uke
LOL. My problem with coin money (I’m just under the Quebec boarder, and I’ve been calling them ‘toonies,’ no w, am I wrong?) is that it’s hard to carry. I can break a $10 bill and have a wallet full of paper, but if I break a $10 in Canada or Germany (they have all sorts of funny money there. Different sizes, colors, it’s kooky) I get a 3 lbs wallet full of $1 coins. Feh.
However, the name “sackie” makes me giggle.
One must have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. -Nietzche
Unless you go to the all mighty Wal-Mart, you can buy the Sackies from the U.S. Mint. Of course, then it costs you $35.50 for a $25 dollar roll or you can get a 2000 coint bag of them for $2190. Go figure!
Does that include people with poor eyesight? My grandmother had the worst time telling bills apart when she went to California, but it’s not like she was lazy. Her eyesight just wasn’t good enough.
I spent my sackie at lunch. The guy had to look at it to see if it was real. That’s what’s so fun about getting new currency; throwing a curve to people. Two-doallar bills have a similar effect. 
There was a story about them in the Los Angeles Daily News earlier this week. One guy said they look like bus tokens.
There’s two topics about this over at General Questions: “Coins!” and “Dollarization.”
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Well, if I ever heard it from someone who was actually blind (or close to it), I might think differently, but it’s usally people looking to insult something in the U.S. (albeit jokingly).
And, for the record, the new U.S. bills all have a large bold number denoting the denomination on the back of the bill in high contrast dark green on white for exactly the reason you stated. Once the smaller bills get reprinted, it won’t be an issue.
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
Actually, having a pocket full of sackies might help the economy. People will say, “Damn! These things are heavy! I’d better spend them!”
I like the idea of change actually being worth something.
Besides. I like saying “sackies”.
Um, did anyone else think this thread was about something else when they saw the topic?
Blush. Reading the OP I didn’t realize the subject was coins.
Since Johnny is an L.A. trendy animal, somehow I thought he was talking about those unlikely bag-on-a-thong-things that Brazilian men wear on beaches.
Oh. We’re talking about currency. Hard metal currency…uh, cast metal.
Uh…okay.
Veb
I did… and I originated it! But then I remembered Pecker and realized that they refered to the other thing as “tea-bagging”.
I just got MY first Sackie today.
I know all the good reasons why switching to a dollar coin is a good idea, but I admit that I was very skeptical about the Sackie–for all the usual reasons: Love my greenbacks, hate change (both changes in currency and small change), etc.
Plus, I questioned the choice of Sacajawea as the “cover model” as it were.
But, when I actually SAW the coin, well I was literally moved to tears by the image. It was really wonderful to see a woman–a REAL woman, not that prissy ol’ Susan B.–on a coin!
I decided that I would hold on to my 4 Sackies to bring home to show my husband. As I went through my day, I had to purchase a few small things. I actually found myself getting somewhat annoyed at the wrinkly, foldy, hard-to-tell-apart dollar bills! I was wishing I could grab a Sackie. Whatta surprise!
Maybe the Sackies really ARE better.
Now, if the U.S. really wanted us to use them, they would stop printing dollar bills. Hah! I’ll bet you a Sackie that that won’t happen for a good long while.
I haven’t gotten a sackie yet but I think she’s a good figure for a coin. Read an account of the L&C exidition like Stephen Ambrose’s Undaunted Courage and you’ll see how tough that woman was.
Brood: Explain how!
Brood’s Brain: Money can be exchanged for goods and services.
Brood: Woohoo!
You can’t accidently create a handicapped baby whilst smoking pot.
I was at the store the other day and gave the clerk two 50 cent pieces. She looked at them befuddled for about 30 SEC and said she would have to ask the manager if she could accept them. Who knows what would have happened if I had tried to use a “sackie”.
Icerigger, (BTW, is that from a science fiction book called Icerigger’s Way?) It’s fun to give uncommon currency to people who aren’t very bright. Suzies, sackies, $2 bills… I worked at an amusement park in high school and a Brazilian kid wanted to buy something with a $10 bill that was printed in the thirties. My co-workers (also high-schoolers, for the most part) wondered if they could accept it. I finally said, “Look. Here’s $10. Give me the kid’s.”
I can’t wait to get more sackies. Even though I don’t much care for Taco Hell (sometimes I just need something fast and cheap), it might be fun using them with the morons who always mess up my order.
“I must leave this planet, if only for an hour.” – Antoine de St. Exupéry
Are you a turtle?
I still have never seen one. Are they catching on, do you think?
I just got 50 of them from my credit union, to give to my granddaughter for her birthday.
Cost: a whopping $50.
The kids love them. I think they’re cool too.
And they’re very easy to distinguish from other coins.
Peace,
mangeorge
I only know two things;
I know what I need to know
And
I know what I want to know
Mangeorge, 2000
You know, the minimalist design of US currency does have at least one advantage–few colors of ink mean a less complicated printing process. Efficiency in government? Dare I dream?
As far as the sackie goes, the only way it will be really accepted is if they stop making $1 bills, as Canada did. For people who don’t usually carry change, it’s unlikely they’ll stop using singles if they still have them. Also consider that high value coins are typically snatched up by collectors (Eisenhower dollars, Susie B’s, Kennedy halves). Unless they mint 10’s of millions a year (flood the market), they’ll quickly find their way out of circulation.
pout I still haven’t gotten one 