The stamp machine at work gives sackies for change. I’ve been buying one stamp with a $20 bill so I can get a pocketful of sackies. It’s fun to watch the momentary confusion on people’s faces when I spend them.
What are sackies?
Sacagawea dollars. They replaced the suzies (Susan B. Anthony) dollars.
Gotcha. I guess this is this kind of fun I miss out on by living in Japan.
I just have a yen for spending sackies! 
::grooooooooooaaaaaan::
Johnny, that was horrible!
bows and waves Thank you! Thank you! I’ll be here all week. waves and blows kiss
BTW, my first name is the same as William Clark’s valet’s and my birthday is the same as Susan B. Anthony’s. Cosmic coincidence?
Are those the copper-gold colored ones? I got mine from K-Mart a couple months ago.
The very ones. http://www.usmint.gov/goldendollar/winner.cfm
But “sackie” is so much easier to say than “golden dollar coin”.
I got 5 just to see what they were when they first came out, and my uncle gave me a roll of 'em as part of my graduation present (“Keep this, and you’ll never be broke.”), but those are the only ones I’ve ever seen.
Poo, MY Post office has Suzy B’s. 
As I mentioned in my critically acclaimed thread here, I love the coin. I get a roll or two every week at the bank for pocket money. It’s so much easier to reach into my pocket for a coin than to pull my wallet out and fish around for a single. All the vendors around me have become very used to getting them from me. I am still waiting for the day when they actually start giving them back as change, instead of raggedy old ripped-up paper dollars.
Same here. The New York City subway robots give them out as change when you buy MetroCards, so there SHOULD be no shortage of them around here. I don’t get any funny looks from newsstands or coffee shops when I use them, but I have never ONCE gotten one back in change.
Oh, yeah…I spent them over the past month in Virginia, Colorado, Maine, and Ohio, and immediately became the center of attention; huge crowds of wondering locals surged around me, wanting to touch them. No one in those states ever seemed to have seen one before.
These coins (the Sackies) have disaapeared from circulation in the Boston Area! I saw them at the beginning of the summer (around June);maybe people are hoarding them?
I thought the Susan B. Anthony dollar was a big mistake-and I thought they had disappeared from circulation as well-I was wrong! If you use the MBTA (Boston transit system) you will get your change in crisp, new, SBA’s!
I guess the govt. has made a ton of money on this-they can stamp out all the Sackies they want-and peoplw will hold on to them!
Sounds like inflation might work after all!
Well, since some of them are minted here in Denver, I doubt the masses had never seen them before. Maybe they wanted to touch you, not the coins. That would make much more sense.
My friend would pay for everything in “Sues and twos”. Restaurant servers were his favorite target, leaving them a 20% tip in Sues and letting them think it was all quarters til someone pointed them out.
[Of course, if he didn’t like the service, he’d leave a 15% tip…in Canadian money. (US restaurants - we lived near the border at the time.)]
Love the new dollars, which btw are not copper plated, but
made of an alloy that actually is that color inherently.
My only regret is that they didn’t use the eagle-on-moon design like on older dollars. It seems to be saying that
the moon landings were nothing more than a blip in our history rather than an epochal, trailblazing event. OTOH I do like the flying eagle, better than the standing eagle on the old quarters (pre-1999), or the heraldic eagle such as the one on the Kennedy $.50.
By all means, if you like them, do all you can to get them and spend them. This will force Brink’s, which for some reason has been reluctant to handle them, to do whatever it is they need to do.
I thought of this today while thinking about Johnny’s horrible puns…
Does anyone besides me think that the Mint made an extraordinarily stupid mistake to introduce both the SBA and the Sackie without getting rid of the paper dollar?
Also, has anyone come across any studies/statistics that say how much money the US would save by switching to a coin dollar?
Heck, I get a fresh roll of Sackies every time I go to the bank for laundry money. “Two rolls of quarters, one roll of gold dollars, please.” I like to give 'em as tips to pizza deliverers and the like, although I’ve used them on occastion in video rental stores and other places. They’re just plain cool.
Glenna Goodacre, the woman sculptor who created the Sacagawea design on the gold dollar, was the speaker at my college graduation.