# Paper vs. coin: American politics are overly commercialized

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 23, 2012, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-vs-coin-american-politics-are-overly-commercialized/616582 "2012-03-23T05:35:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\
**Post date:** [September 15, 2012, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paper-vs-coin-american-politics-are-overly-commercialized/616582/81 "2012-09-15T05:16:29Z")

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> [@SCAdian](#):
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> Why would dollar coins have to be “huge”?
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> And the complaints about weight/bulk baffle me, they really do. The last time somebody told me that dollar coins would weigh too much, I pulled all the coins out of my pocket: An assortment of small stuff, 12 quarters, and 18 dollar coins. The weight and bulk of the cell phone and wallet in my other pockets were _much_ more noticeable and annoying.

And my response would be to be boggled by the fact that that didn’t bother you. I’ve carried less\* coins than that and it’s annoying.

But, as stated before, this is a moot issue, or, at least, will be, once candy and coke machines regularly have card slots, like it’s now regular for them to have dollar slots. Carrying physical money is annoying.

\*Yes, I did that on purpose. It’s grammatically correct. Deal with it.

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