Frankly, I find our 'merkin bills all ugly compared to the vibrant, colorful, water-marked bills of other wossname. Countries. However, most of adult America is brain-dead and resistant to change so we may never have pretty bills.
…unless they market them as collector items.
…PokéCash?
~stv
¡Voltroñ!
Frankly, I find our 'merkin bills all ugly compared to the vibrant, colorful, water-marked bills of other wossname. Countries. However, most of adult America is brain-dead and resistant to change so we may never have pretty bills.
…unless they market them as collector items.
…PokéCash?
~stv
¡Voltroñ!
Scully said
Partly true. Our new bill have watermarks(finally!). I heard years ago that the Treasury Dept/Secret Service(in charge of counterfeiting) resists going to color as they believe that it is easier to counterfeit. Hey! I just said I heard it. NOt that it was true.
Oh, how I pray the new U.S. dollar coin is doomed, and here’s why: the current system always makes me feel wealthy when I come back from the States.
When I arrive in the U.S. and start spending petty cash, I get lots of dollar bills back in change, and having all those bills in my wallet makes me feel wealthy. Any damn fool knows that the smallest bill is the $5, right? So if I have eight bills in my wallet, I must have at least $40-- except, no, I’ve got $8. Sigh.
Almost always, it’s right as my “money sense” gets adjusted that I need to go back home, so I go home and start spending again. But this time, I end up with a pocketful of change in loonies and toonies, and I get depressed because any fool knows the largest common coin is the quarter, so these eight coins in my pocket can’t be worth more than two bucks-- except that I pull out eight toonies, and I have $16! Rock on!
Okay, so it’s not a great reason to dislike the Sacajewa dollar, but hey, sometimes you need to take your thrills where you can get them.
I have to say that, as a college student, the new dollar coin has come in very handy. At our student union, there is a coffee shop where I routinely buy a large hot tea (price: 70 cents) while studying. It is so nice to be able to pull a coin out instead of having to fumble through my laundry dollar bills and my multiple IDs for a buck. Plus, it’s funny to bewilder the poor cashier. But that’s just me. 
Christopher Robin Hood - he steals from the rich and gives to the Pooh.
Well, along these lines, as a college student, it’s really nice to reach for the change in your pocket and find that “hey - that’s not a quarter! I have 75 whole cents more than I thought! All right!” Plus, tea costs 70 cents at our coffee house, and giving the grumpy student cashiers the sackie at 11 PM provides entertainment for the whole line.
Christopher Robin Hood - he steals from the rich and gives to the Pooh.
dang…sorry for posting twice; the computer told me earlier today that the connection didn’t go through 
I don’t think the new dollar coin will catch on. They are much harder to stuff into g-strings at the stip club. 
I don’t think the new dollar coin will catch on. They are much harder to stuff into g-strings at the stip club.
I got some Suzies the last time I rode Metrolink and I discovered that new soda machines will take them. The new Sackies are supposed to be of the same weight, size and electromagnetic signature as the Suzie, so the vending-machine industry thinks Sackie will fly. I wonder if pay phones will accpet them…?
And I seem to remember that when the Suzie was first introduced, the only machines that would take them were new-model pinball machines. I think you got six games for a Suzie.
Feel free to correct me at any time. But don’t be surprised if I try to correct you.
Science News had an article about the Sacagawea dollar. I’m sure it is coincidental that it appeared in the April 1st issue.
I finally got a Sackie of my own. I saw a guy put a dollar bill into a candy machine, wait a few seconds, and then push the “coin return” button. Out came a new Sackie instead of the dollar bill or a bunch of change. I did the same.
I think it’s a nice coin and even a blind person will not mistake it for a quarter because it’s so much bigger and it has a smooth edge.
Sig Alert!
I’ve really enjoyed this particular string and felt inspired to replace the singles in my bank for sackies. I’m a part time waitress and give change to my customers from my own supply of cash, my bank. I loved giving away interesting coins as change, as it’s a great conversation piece and talkative, friendly customers tip more. However, I found that much of my lovely change was taken home as souvenirs instead of being left on the table to pay my wage. sigh
still on the fence,
Sue
BTW, the US Mint has lots of information and statistics y’all might find interesting. Check out the commemorative coin section to see the many coins that are legal money, but are worth far more than their face value. Also, the press releases are interesting. When the Maryland quarter was released in 100 and 1000 coin bags, the Mint’s web site sold $2.7million of them. In one hour.
For paper money, go to the Money Factory.
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Thanks. Too bad y’all got such a stupid setup.
I gotta tell ya that I think these new dollar coins look like some Third World country currency. There is simply not enough “traditional” U.S. of A. type adornment on it. Also, she’s looking over her shoulder at you, and all of our other coin mugshots(as far as I know)are side profiles. Also, I know nothing about this Sacajawea but I do seem to recall that most of the Indians were wiped out by white settler types and that the Declaration of Independence has a comment about “merciless Indian savages” that seem to make me feel this is some kind of stab at political correctness on behalf of the U.S. I agree that U.S. paper money has also been degraded in its “dignity” or “stateliness”. In the back of my mind, I feel the U.S. government might secretly be trying to prepare the people for the future World Economy or something. That would mean some form of currency standard for the whole world, which would mean new coinage and paperage or whatever you call it. So get the people away from traditional ideas about U.S. money by changing U.S. money’s look! This will make it easier to slide into the new World Economy Money when the time comes! What do you folks think?
Or you could just believe that the new dollar coin was introduced with the hope of eventually eliminating (or at least reducing the need for) the paper dollar bill, which doesn’t last nearly as long as a coin.
As for the design, perhaps the Mint decided to make the coin look different so people would use it.
I would think Occam’s Razor might apply to this situation.
Yeah, but then we wouldn’t be able to approach yet a third page on this topic!
AngstMC said:
So? The reason all other faces are profiles is that it is it is very difficult to get the relief (contrast, depth) necessary to make a recognizable likeness for a frontal image on a coin, but a profile can stay recognizable even after considerable wear. Why is the new coin different? Novelty? They think it will stay recognizable, and be hard to counterfeit? It looks cool? Artistic license?
Sacajawea was an Indian who served as a guide for Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition. I believe she married one of them. As for your characterization that this is an attempt at being PC - I guess that’s up to interpretation. They did limit the design options to women for the coin, and did choose a non-white person. You could say they were making a change to try to incorporate more diversity in the honorees. Same point, but the tone and implication is different.
Degraded in it’s dignity? I don’t know what you mean.
So? If the U.S. switches to some world economy form of money, it will be because it is the smart thing to do in our new world economy. Whether you like it or not, money goes all over the planet. Business is more globally dispersed and interrelated than it has ever been, and will likely continue to be more so.
AngstMC said:
Irishman said:
Both of you are Americans and both apparently flubbed American history. And then have the gall to flaunt your ignorance to the world.
For your punishment, you will read the history of the Lewis and Clark Expedition here and write a 500 word report on it. And I’ll be taking off for grammatical, spelling, and punctuation errors (and you guys thought you were done with school, hahahahahah).
Well, at least read the second page where they hire, not Sacagawea, but her husband as guide (she went along and didn’t get a plugged nickel for doing it).
Irishman:
The US already has the defacto international currency.