# The new Dollar Coin... yea or nay **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [April 22, 2000, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079 "2000-04-22T05:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**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:** [June 25, 2000, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079/41 "2000-06-25T16:55:13Z")
lolagranola wrote: > [@](#): > > Until I saw this thread, I didn’t even realize that $1 coins were in popular circulation in the US. They’re not. The Sacajewia “golden” dollar coins only came out this year, and they’re still pretty hard to find. Most people who do manage to get one (as far as I know) stash it away in their collections without spending it. And don’t get me started on that abyssmal failure from 1979-1981 called the Susan B. Anthony dollar… ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079/42 "2000-06-26T04:37:16Z")
Oddly enough, they’re fairly common in my (rural Louisiana) hometown. This is in part due to my father and brother (who share many of my eccentricities) making a point of withdrawing rolls of them from the local bank and spending them wherever they would normally spend a dollar bill. In a town of 2800, two eccentrics can make a difference. If enough sackies get into circulation, people will stop seeing them as rarities and quit collecting them. Really though, if you can get rolls of them in a bank in a town that’s just 3 miles east of the Middle of Nowhere, surely you can get them at your bank! I like coins, but I fully agree that the penny needs to go. If nothing else, it’ll make more room for sackies in the change jars of those who don’t like them. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079/43 "2000-06-26T15:19:12Z")
I like em. When I go to get cash at the bank (when depositing a check or the like), I usually get a $10 bill, and 10 golden dollars. I use the coins in the vending machine outside my office…and I think it’s really nice to have 5 bucks in coins, that DOESN’T weight that much…considerably better than 20 quarters. Jman ---
**Author:** ![PowerpuffKue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@PowerpuffKue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PowerpuffKue)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2000, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079/44 "2000-06-26T17:45:09Z")
You gotta feel sorry for waiter/waitresses then, cuz usually people leave a dollar or 2 tip, if they were all coins, ouch. Imagine comming back with 100 dollars, in coins. But maybe people will start giving 5’s for tips, my mother would sure like that, 🙂 ---
**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:** [June 27, 2000, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079/45 "2000-06-27T20:50:53Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > Flymaster: yep. That’s what I’m on about. > > Tracer: yeah there are wallets with coin pouches. Is yours thin, though? Everytime I’ve seen them they manage to make the wallet super thick, and my wallet is thick enough for me (I have too many damned supermarket savings cards [those are fodder for yet another debate…], credit cards, etc.). > \*\* So you don’t like your wallet superthick, eh? How about that wad of old singles you get at the parking pay booth when all you had was a twenty, and the clerk just happened to be out of fives and tens? ---
**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:** [June 27, 2000, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079/46 "2000-06-27T21:16:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\* > You gotta feel sorry for waiter/waitresses then, cuz usually people leave a dollar or 2 tip, if they were all coins, ouch. Imagine comming back with 100 dollars, in coins. > > But maybe people will start giving 5’s for tips, my mother would sure like that, 🙂 > \*\* big frigging deal…100 Sackies can hardly weigh more than 2 pounds. I read somewhere that in the old days a hundred real silver dollars weighed about 6 pounds, so a hundred Sackies have to be waaayyyyy less. ---
**Author:** ![Shadenwawa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Shadenwawa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadenwawa)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2000, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079/47 "2000-06-27T22:45:41Z")
> [@](#): > > So you don’t like your wallet superthick, eh? How about > that wad of old singles you get at the parking pay booth > when all you had was a twenty, and the clerk just happened to be out of fives and tens? In that scenerio, if we had no dollar bills, I’d get 20 _coins_ instead. 20 singles beats 20 coins any day, in my (pocket)book. -S [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-new-dollar-coin-yea-or-nay/18079.md?page=2)