This Wikipedia article shows a picture of the Susan B. Anthony dollar, and while the exterior is round, the interior of the rim is only 11 sided. Unless a previous version of the coin was 13 sided, it appears that the questioner was twice-mistaken. Cecil, being infallible, made no claim that the coin had 13 sides, but I’m a little surprised that he didn’t point out this error.
Incidentally, an 11 sided polygon is a hendecagon, as the wiki article notes. Or an 11-gon for those who are more interested in math than Greek.
Well, if they clipped the round edge off, per the original plan, it would be. As it is, with only one discernable side around the rim, it’s more of a trihedron.
You have to wonder about some feminists who think there was a deliberate attempt have a coin with a woman on it. How did the Eisenhower sliver dollar do in the marketplace? How did the Jefferson two dollar bill a few years earlier do? Too many feminists are swaggering tin-plated dictators with delusions of God hood and refuse to accept they could possbily be wrong.
Shortly before the Anthony dollar came out I asked someone who was in the vending machine business what he thought about it. He said it would be a flop. There was no need for it. Vending machines and cash registers weren’t set up for it. But this was the Carter years of killer rabbits and incompetent Polish translators.
But people in Canada, Britain, the Euro zone, Australia and New Zealand can all cope with new sizes and denominations of coins coming out. Perhaps they have access to some advanced vending-machine and cash-register technology that’s not available in the US. (Or wasn’t available during President Carter’s administration).
I don't know what the vending technology was like back then or today. Now vending machines can take paper $1 bills so higher priced times (cigarettes) don't need a $1 coin. Unlike most other countries Americans are not sheep and don't like being led by the nose by some bureaucrat who thinks some pet idea of his must be followed.
Just the opposite. Ask commuters in the US in large cities which they prefer to use in a subway/transit machine----and you’ll hear the coin preferred over a bill.
Nope. Wrong on both counts. Cash register tills all have a section for half-dollars. Halves have disappeared from view, so most cashiers use that hole for rolls of coins.
When the Susie was introduced, the Treasury Dept. had already nudged vending machine makers to accomodate the new coin. Most of those dollar-friendly coin slots are gone now, but lots of machines would accept the Susie. In fact, the Bally company even modified some of their pinball machines to give an extra play when the player used a Susie.
The coin was a failure, but not for those reasons. If the government had started making paper dollars scarce, it would have been different.
I don’t think even a Klingon would call James T. Kirk a feminist. :dubious:
The U.S. has never “demonetarized” any currency, i.e., said that, after a certain date, this or that bill or coin would no longer be honored. But if the Treasury gradually took $1 paper bills out of circulation and printed no more even as distribution of dollar coins (Susan B. Anthony, Sacagawea, or my personal nomination, Harry Truman) increased, they’d catch on out of necessity. The Treasury would also save a lot in printing costs - $1 bills don’t last too long, IIRC.
Well, on June 24, 1968, Silver Certificates ceased to be redeemable in silver, though they are still legal tender, and foreign coins were legal tender in the US until 1857.