# The newest Dollar coin

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**Created:** [May 10, 2024, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-dollar-coin/1001374 "2024-05-10T18:04:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 11, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-newest-dollar-coin/1001374/74 "2024-05-11T13:44:21Z")

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Fourteen years ago I started a thread complaining about some idiot who borrowed money from me and eventually paid me back with 50 dollar coins.

> [@What to do with dollar coins](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-with-dollar-coins/531852/1):
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> A guy who owed me $50 paid me yesterday, with dollar coins. Dick move, IMHO.
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> Anyway, what would you do with fifty dollar coins? It seems rude to pay a restaurant check with a pile of coins, doesn’t it? A friend in retail tells me that cash registers do not have a place for dollar coins, so they are a pia. Maybe I’ll take them by the bank and get real paper money.
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> I haven’t had any of these coins before. The have the Statue of Liberty on one side, and Paul McCartney (when did he die?) on the other.:dubious:

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