# Spending "sackies" **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 21, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942 "2000-09-21T02:12:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**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:** [September 21, 2000, 2:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/1 "2000-09-21T02:12:10Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Teach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@Teach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/2 "2000-09-21T02:17:18Z")
What are sackies? ---
**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:** [September 21, 2000, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/3 "2000-09-21T02:20:22Z")
Sacagawea dollars. They replaced the suzies (Susan B. Anthony) dollars. ---
**Author:** ![Teach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@Teach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/4 "2000-09-21T02:30:24Z")
Gotcha. I guess this is this kind of fun I miss out on by living in Japan. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/5 "2000-09-21T02:34:11Z")
I just have a _ **yen** _ for spending sackies! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/6 "2000-09-21T02:40:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Johnny L.A. \* > \*\*I just have a _ **yen** _ for spending sackies! 😃 > \*\* ::grooooooooooaaaaaan:: Johnny, that was _horrible_! ---
**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:** [September 21, 2000, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/7 "2000-09-21T02:42:45Z")
> [@](#): > > ::grooooooooooaaaaaan:: > > Johnny, that was horrible! _bows and waves_ Thank you! Thank you! I’ll be here all week. _waves and blows kiss_ ---
**Author:** ![Teach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/47e85d/32.png) [@Teach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teach)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/8 "2000-09-21T02:55:42Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Geek\_Mecha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ecae2f/32.png) [@Geek\_Mecha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Geek_Mecha)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/9 "2000-09-21T02:58:23Z")
Are those the copper-gold colored ones? I got mine from K-Mart a couple months ago. ---
**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:** [September 21, 2000, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/10 "2000-09-21T03:07:44Z")
> [@](#): > > 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](http://www.usmint.gov/goldendollar/winner.cfm) But “sackie” is _so_ much easier to say than “golden dollar coin”. ---
**Author:** ![Gunslinger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@Gunslinger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gunslinger)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/11 "2000-09-21T03:25:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Danielinthewolvesden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Danielinthewolvesden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Danielinthewolvesden)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/12 "2000-09-21T06:32:21Z")
Poo, MY Post office has Suzy B’s. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/96bed5/32.png) [@Patty\_O\_Furniture](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patty_O_Furniture)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/13 "2000-09-21T14:18:55Z")
As I mentioned in my critically acclaimed thread [here](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=20953), 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. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/14 "2000-09-21T14:55:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by opus \* > \*\*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. ---
**Author:** ![egkelly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/db5fbb/32.png) [@egkelly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/egkelly)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/15 "2000-09-21T15:44:24Z")
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! ---
**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:** [September 21, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/16 "2000-09-21T16:19:19Z")
> [@](#): > > 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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/17 "2000-09-21T16:37:15Z")
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.)] ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2000, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/18 "2000-09-21T23:53:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\*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. ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/19 "2000-09-22T00:25:38Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2000, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942/20 "2000-09-22T00:29:37Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spending-sackies/33942.md?page=2)