# Sacagawea Dollar Coin **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 1, 2000, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266 "2000-10-01T20:30:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [October 2, 2000, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/21 "2000-10-02T18:28:55Z")
“Squaw-buck” is funny, and so is “baby-back” (although maybe it should be “baby-_front_” since it’s on the face of the coin?). But I’ll stick with **sackie**. It’s fun to say. ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/22 "2000-10-02T20:15:01Z")
AM/PM wrote: > [@](#): > > The gov. made a mint on that deal if they cost a penny to make and people hoard them It costs about 12 cents to mint a Sacajewia Dollar coin. This is still a cost savings over dollar bills (which only cost 3 cents each to print up), because dollar bills only last about a year-and-a-half while coins last around 30 years. ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2000, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/23 "2000-10-02T20:37:29Z")
Hey **opus** , you’re not the only one: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39068](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=39068) ---
**Author:** ![Josepheen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@Josepheen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Josepheen)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/24 "2000-10-03T03:22:14Z")
Travisimo - I would certainly entertain a promotion within the organization. You know I am a dedicated servant to our mutual cause. May I suggest you consider including Tatortub and Burrito in your mission? They do seem to have what it takes! 🙂 Keep spreading the good word, commrades!! Baby-Backs ROCK!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![travisimo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@travisimo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/travisimo)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/25 "2000-10-03T03:54:27Z")
Now I KNOW I’m in love, but am still wondering–WHO ARE YOU??? Travisimo Out. ---
**Author:** ![Chickin\_Lickin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@Chickin\_Lickin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chickin_Lickin)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2000, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/26 "2000-10-03T09:30:56Z")
So if Sacagawea got in a fight with Susan B. Anthony who do you think would win? I am thinking Sacagawea! At this fight do you think they would sell Cherry Snow Cones? It is rumored that Sacagawea’s child (Sacagaweewee) loves the Snow Cone thing. I have visited the site for the promotion of the Baby-back dollar… Hmmmm, very interesting! I think you should start posting the odds of Sacagawea vs. Susan B. Anthony. And maybe we could get that odds thing on previous faces of the dollar. Sacagawea vs. Eisenhower I think a draw Sacagawea vs. Liberty I say… Sacagawea 8th round K.O Sacagawea vs. George Washington (Death Match) My vote is George dead in the first round Does anyone feel different? ---
**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:** [October 3, 2000, 12:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/27 "2000-10-03T12:57:29Z")
_Mon dieu_! I’m out of sackies! I need to go buy a stamp with a $20 bill! ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/28 "2000-10-04T03:46:05Z")
I’ve encountered exactly **one** Sackie in the Washington area. Tonight, I bought something that cost $5.something, and paid with a $10 bill. In return, I got four $1 bills, and a handfull of other change. Where are all the Sackies in the DC area?!?! 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Josepheen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@Josepheen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Josepheen)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/29 "2000-10-04T04:26:41Z")
I don’t know where they are in the DC area, but they are all over the Last Frontier! Personally, I’ve made it my mission to convert at least one new person each day to calling a Baby-Back by it’s name (would a Baby-Back by any other name spend the same??). Today is was the lucky little man at the Taco Bell’s turn to hear the good word. I do believe he will sleep better tonight knowing how enlightened he now is. 🙂 Baby-Back Supporters Unite! ---
**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:** [October 4, 2000, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/30 "2000-10-04T12:20:03Z")
> [@](#): > > Where are all the Sackies in the DC area?!?! I get my sackies out of a stamp machine. It used to give suzies as change, but a couple of months ago sackies started coming out. > [@](#): > > I’ve made it my mission to convert at least one new person each day to calling a Baby-Back by it’s name Call it what you want, but around here we’ve been calling them **sackies** since they were released. ---
**Author:** ![Josepheen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@Josepheen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Josepheen)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/31 "2000-10-04T14:56:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > > Call it what you want, but around here we’ve been calling them **sackies** since they were released. > > \*\* Come on Johnny…Sackie is a good enough name, but Baby-Back is fun to say!! Join our cause!! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [October 4, 2000, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/32 "2000-10-04T15:20:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\***travisimo > Josepheen > Tatortub > Burrito** > > Do you all know each other? 😉 > \*\* Indeed…[sup]Mod/Admin? Check some IPs?[/sup] ---
**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:** [October 4, 2000, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/33 "2000-10-04T16:50:37Z")
> [@](#): > > Come on Johnny…Sackie is a good enough name, but Baby-Back is fun to say!! Join our cause!! Nah, **sackie** is _more_ fun to say (and it doesn’t plug a mass-market rib joint – whose food I don’t like anyway). I’ll stick with **sackie**. > [@](#): > > > [@](#): > > > > quote: > > > > Originally posted by Johnny L.A. > > travisimo > > Josepheen > > Tatortub > > Burrito > > > > Do you all know each other? 😉 > > Indeed…Mod/Admin? Check some IPs? Is there _another_ of you now? **Chickin’Lickin’**? ---
**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/34 "2000-10-05T01:49:52Z")
Montfort wrote: > [@](#): > > Where are all the Sackies in the DC area?!?! 😕 The same place they are in California. In people’s collections 'cause there _just ain’t e-darned-nough of them in circulation to meet the demand!!_ Not that I’m bitter. Nooooooooo… ---
**Author:** ![Josepheen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@Josepheen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Josepheen)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/35 "2000-10-05T02:40:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > > Originally posted by Johnny L.A. > travisimo > Josepheen > Tatortub > Burrito > > Do you all know each other? 😉 Indeed…Mod/Admin? Check some IPs? [/quote] Is there _another_ of you now? **Chickin’Lickin’**? \*\* [/QUOTE] Apparently there are a few of you out there that have the idea that I and my friends are one in the same… at the very least it would be more interesting if we WERE one in the same and had some sort of dissociative disorder. THAT at least could lead to a whole new and highly exciting conversation thread. But, alas, it is not so. We are in fact just a boring, and not so exciting, group of, at last count 5 separate people. In fact, a couple of them I have never met. We are all cosmically linked in some way I suppose, what is that? 6 degrees of separation or some such thing? Anyway, I digress. To set everyone’s minds at ease, I am one person and only one person, as is the rest of the group. However, although we are uninteresting in that we are 5 separate people, we are VERY devoted supporters of the Baby-Back! 🙂 And, Johnny, just say, “I want my Baby-Back Baby-Back Baby-Back… coins” a few times and you too may be caught by the fever! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![travisimo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7bcc69/32.png) [@travisimo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/travisimo)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2000, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/36 "2000-10-05T04:43:30Z")
Well put! Wait, am I talking to myself? ---
**Author:** ![Josepheen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/848f3c/32.png) [@Josepheen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Josepheen)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2000, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/37 "2000-10-06T03:17:31Z")
Travisimo Thanks!! And no, you are not talking to yourself… you are talking to me! 🙂 (hey, how do you make this thing type in bold?) ---
**Author:** ![Tatortub](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6bbea6/32.png) [@Tatortub](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tatortub)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/38 "2000-10-09T16:57:12Z")
I have found that on the Kenai Peninsula, the term Baby-back is catching on. The Quarter back for the Soldotna Stars (HS football) told me that he had heard them being called Babybacks…and will spread the word!! Yeah! I believe that if we can incorporate our message into the youth of America we will be Triumphant! Go Baby-Backs!! ---
**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/39 "2000-10-09T17:47:52Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > Where are all the Sackies in the DC area?!?! > > I get my sackies out of a stamp machine. It used to give suzies as change, but a couple of months ago sackies started coming out.\*\* Ditto here. I was in the post office on Friday mailing a package, and decided that I wanted some Sackies. So, I spied a $10 bill in my wallet, and bought a packet of International Mail stamps (so I can mail Anniz, so, of course, it wasn’t a total waste :p) and promptly got… Seven Suzies in change. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![JosephFinn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/3bc359/32.png) [@JosephFinn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JosephFinn)\ **Post date:** [October 9, 2000, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266/40 "2000-10-09T17:56:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by samclem \* > \*\*A dollar coin will never work in the USA until and unless we get rid of the dollar bill. Period. > > They will only be used in metropolitan areas with mass transit. They may circulate in the near future as they are a novelty, but are ultimately doomed, no matter their color. > > \*\* Very true. I just came back from Britain and Ireland, where the 1 pound and punt coins are very widely used and have completely replaced the respective bills. I loved 'em, even though I was a little ticked when I came back to Chicago and found out the exchange desk at O’Hare doesn’t accept change. So, I still have a bunch of 'em. I guess I should have bouth some Cadbury bars from the Shannon airport vending machines (mmmmmm). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sacagawea-dollar-coin/35266.md?page=3)