US Dollar Coins - why the failure?

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Why do they fail to take hold again and again? The Australians and Canadians seem able to use them, the UK has the handy pound coin... why can't Americans get with the program? "But it looks like a quarter, I, er, uhmm..."

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:21 (twenty years ago)

AND we still use the penny which has become more a liability than an asset.. just round it off to the nearest nickel, Australians dropped it along time ago and they seem to be getting along just fine.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

http://www.photospin.com/content/photos/thumb/0460058.jpg

She looks like a WITCH!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

on the sacajawea, I don't know why we can't deal with the dollar coin. I was WARNED by a parking attendant a while back that the automatic parking machine would only give out dollar coins for change. When I told him it was no big deal, he insisted on personally breaking my ten so I wouldn't have to get the coins.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

also who else has had to convice some young punk that the susan b is in fact legal tender??

maybe we just hate women.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

They're just annoying...THEY JUST ARE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

Sarah once had to try to explain to a large group of her (30- and 40-something) coworkers who Sacajawea was.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

the dollar coins are always badly-designed, to be made about the same size as a quarter.

also, they don't have adorable nicknames like "looneys" or "twooneys" or birds on them.

a "Saccy" just doesn't have the same ring.

― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

Americans hate change. Introducing currency that increases the amount of change in your pockets is a non-starter.

Conversely, introduce the 25-cent bill and you will get more currency tail than you'll know what to do with.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:29 (twenty years ago)

The dude at the snack stand downstairs tried to give me a $2 bill as change once, and I made him take it back and give me two $1 bills. The very next day, he gave me a dollar coin as part of my change, probably as some sort of revenge. I considered making him take it back and give me a bill, but instead I just bit down on it, like I was making sure it was gold.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

(That story is 85% true)

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

coins suck - I say 2 coins only, 10cecnt and 50cent.

― jhoshea (scoopsnoodle), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:30 (twenty years ago)

I bet we don't like dollar coins because we go to strip clubs all the time.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.usmint.gov/kids/images/campCoin/1971Eisenhower$1_obv.gif

When I was a kid, I LOVED Ike dollars.. they had such weight to them, and always came from the cool uncle or something. I haven't even seen one in years.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

I had much more trouble/was more annoyed with the one dollar bill. It just doesn't *feel* right. It's just a dollar!

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Soon after I was born, my dad won a photography contest for a photo he took of my mom holding me. The prize was $100 in Susan B. Anthony dollars. They had to spend most of them, but we still had about 10 of them in a piggy bank when I was a kid and they were a source of amazement and curiosity.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

Wasn't there a moon-landing commemorative Ike dollar? Or did I make that up?

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

In high school, I worked at a restarant near a Coast Guard base and one week they paid all the sailors in $2 bills, I guess to recirculate them. They were crisp and new, however... all of our tips were in two's.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:36 (twenty years ago)

teeny, you're making me chuckle!

― kelsey (kelstarry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

yeah, there was one with an astronaut on the moon I think! My dad saves Ike dollars and gives them to kids he meets, he gave me about ten recently so that I could do the same, he's such a neat guy. I remember he got a gold-plated Ike dollar out of a slot machine once, I can just picture some big shot feeding the slots with gold-plated dollars!

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

It was kinda neat when I visited Australia to dump out my pocket change onto the desk and find that I had EIGHTEEN DOLLARS on hand.

For me, it's easier to just flip through a few bills and fork over my pay. You thought that it was a pain in the ass when you get stuck behind a wino counting out his nickels on the liquor store counter? Just wait until EVERYBODY is doing that.

(The moon landing was on the back of Suzie B's. Either that, or the JFK half-dollar. It wasn't your imagination.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:39 (twenty years ago)

coins are annoying

― Another Allnighter (sexyDancer), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

ok doods, I just dug out my Ike dollars and they all on the reverse have an eagle landing on the moon with the earth in the background, that's what I was thinking of.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:42 (twenty years ago)

Bring on the Foonie!

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

some guy was arrested at a best buy for trying to use $2 bills wasn't he?

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

The dude at the snack stand downstairs tried to give me a $2 bill as change once, and I made him take it back and give me two $1 bills.

What type of smacktalk is this? $2 bills rule. My dad is a $2 bill fiend, he loves giving them out as part of tips.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

Speaking of liquor stores, you should've seen the winos try to pass the state quarters as dollars when they first came out.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:45 (twenty years ago)

1. The only vending machines that take Susan Bs and Saccys are the Post Office machines.

2. If you put a $20 in a post office machine for $7.40 in stamps, you get the change in dollar coins. (See #1.)

But I love the idea of buying a beer or tipping with a single coin. Flipping it with your thumb into the hands of an appreciative cabbie or paperboy!

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

Ned, I like John Muir fine but shouldn't ISHI have been on our quarter? He was actually a REAL californian, Muir was from Missouri or somewhere.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

The Chicago el used to give Sacajawea coins as change back in the days when there were change machines inside el stations -- they took them all out in 2001, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

hmmm maybe muir is the mysterious extra man in our three-person canoe.

http://www.lewisandclark200.gov/images/mint_moquarter.gif

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Japan doesn't have bills lower than 1000 yen (~$10USD). Which is to say there's not much that costs less than $10USD. There are 1 yen coins (~penny) but you can go weeks without encountering them.

― gygax! (gygax!), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:49 (twenty years ago)

Muir be guest-starring on EVERYBODY'S quarter!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

I really don't need the pile of coins at my bedside, on the floor, in the ashtray of my car, to suddenly include dollars. That would effectively multiply my wastefulness by 4.

I hate how the stamp machines at the post office give out dollar coins as change. I got screwed on that once when I bought some stamps with a 20 and ended up with a huge bulging pocket full of useless metal.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

god what a shitty representation of our beautiful arch.

Seriously, that's supposed to be Lewis & Clark and fuck I dunno, the dude that sleeps on Clark's sofa or something.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:51 (twenty years ago)

Next paycheck I'm going to cash it into Ike dollars and carry them in a leather bag, Like Conan at the Renn Faire: "A tankard of mead, wench!"

Cool.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

TS: Lewis & Clark vs Lois & Clark

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)

(xxp)I'm guessing it's York, who was Clark's slave.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

Japan doesn't have bills lower than 1000 yen (

The introduced the 2000 bill but noone wants to use it. I can understand why...

Dollars suck big time. The paper is so flimsy. If it gets wet (due to rain/sweat), it never really seems to dry...

― nathalie's post modern sleaze fest (stevie nixed), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

waiters at some burger joint we used to eat at would give $2 bills back for change from paying the bill in cash... the thought being that tips would always be at least $2 then.

re: coins... if you could tell people, "okay, you get a tax break of X if we stop using $1 or $5 bills altogether and use coins, i bet that would get momentum." seriously, coins last longer than paper... are they harder to forge? i would imagine so...??

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)

accursed proofreading mole... get back here you blind sob!
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

I don't think there a whole lot of people counterfeitting $1 bills.

― geyser muffler and a quarter (Dave225), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:57 (twenty years ago)

the perfect unexpected scam...? "i've never paid for a can of coke in my life!" rubs hands together.
m.

― msp (mspa), Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

http://www.leedworshak.com/images/images/500%20Dollar%20Bill.gif

Here's the real shit... McKinley!!

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

American notes (or 'bills') suck. They all look the same. You want different sizes and colours.

― Teh HoBB (the pirate king), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:01 (twenty years ago)

Well don't we all.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

I actually really like American currency. Until they recently changed it, there was a 1929 Ford parked on the back of the $20. A very durable design. I don't like the new big-head bills at all.

― andy --, Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

I bet we don't like dollar coins because we go to strip clubs all the time.

Well, I did once read an article protesting against dollar coins on the grounds that they can't be tucked into a stripper's garter belt...

― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

You guys really need to go to Montreal and see what they (strippers) do for a toonie.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:10 (twenty years ago)

i also like 50 cent pieces.

― AaronK (AaronK), Thursday, 30 June 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

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Ally I meant dollar bills as straw-replacement snorting utensil.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

those are some great cat money pictures, ally.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ctgilles.net/images/pictars/stevie-wonder-red-eyes.jpg

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.allayurveda.com/images/feminine/31.jpg

xpost I NEVER HAVE DOLLAR BILLS NICKA, PLEASE DON'T RUB IT IN ABOUT MY POVERTY.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

hey jon how much does your cellphone weigh?

PWNED BY ZACH MORRIS PHONE :(

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

jon your picture isn't showing up either

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I know!

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I have never had to deal with a sticky dollar bill. I have had greasy, green quarters shoved into my hands before.

Bills don't roll. I rarely see dollar bills in the bottoms of street grates.

http://www.firstadopter.com/200605281907.jpg

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

oh!!!! my straw picture isn't showing up so i thought you were making fun of me ;_1

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

all I wanna do is make this one last point and then I'm DONE with this thread: all of you, you're still a pussy for liking dollar bills.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

The only acceptable argument for keeping dollar bills is so you can do the wanky folding thing with it to mushroom George Washington's head. And to do the search for the owls on the bill. Other than that, there's no reason for any money at all.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Bills don't roll. I rarely see dollar bills in the bottoms of street grates.

People find paper money in the street all the time. My co-worker found fifty bucks once. OMG PEOPLE LOSE SHIT OH NOES.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/redexok0.gif

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

^ bullshit xpost

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

I once found a wallet stuffed full of dollar bills and tens, it was a good $300 worth of money, just sittin in an elevator.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

why can't i buy soda with my 4 pound phone

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

fuck you nokia

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

In Singapore people can make credit card transactions with their cellphones.

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

People lose shit because thy're acting like hipster douchebags and listening to Depeche Mode while snorting things.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

OTM ^^^^^^

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

If the govt wants to phase out small bills in lieu of coins, I don't know why they don't just go ahead and do it. What are the chattering JWs and PPs going to do, refuse to go along with it? Hoard singles? Switch to debit cards for all transactions including stripper tips? I seriously doubt administrations are going to be turned out of office because of this issue. Some people don't want fluoride in their water either, but fuck 'em, let 'em move to Idaho and dig a well.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

u mad, MW???????????!!!!!!

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

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― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Some people like their cucumbers better pickled.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.uwm.edu/People/tplee/IMAGES/ralph1.gif

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

What are the chattering JWs and PPs going to do, refuse to go along with it? Hoard singles?

~~I still have old twenties somewhere in a shoebox~~

(Seriously, Martin Scorsese's prop department's going to thank me one day.)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I was just kidding about the hipster douchebags

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I just want to see a stripper with a debit card swiper installed in her cleavage, g-string or asscrack.

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

If the govt wants to phase out small bills in lieu of coins, I don't know why they don't just go ahead and do it.

see: everyone in illinois flipping out everytime people talk about getting rid of the penny

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but this is a case where you could just let 'em flip. Are they really going to vote based on which pocket they dig cash out of?!

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

see: metric system

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

Or put Lincoln on the five dollar coin. But they would still freak out.

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

That's a case where public refusal can obv. be effective, but the boat won't float without cash changing hands. The public just can't refuse to conduct that $2.29 transaction the way they can refuse to say kilometer. (xpost)

― Joe Isuzu's Petals (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, they ARE phasing out the penny.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Many of the countries don't have paper equivalents of <$10 USD currency.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

^^in Asia.

― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Idaho has flouridated water! Oh shit, but my parents did dig a well. maybe that 'splains my teeth.

I STILL WANT TO KNOW DO BEAVER CANUCKS THROW COINS AT STRIPPERS WHO THEN PICK THEM UP W/A SWINGING LODESTONE OR SOME SHIT?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Please?

― Abbott (Abbott), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes.

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.80stoysale.com/images/ad9.jpg

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

So you're saying that my grandma will have to send me something $5 or greater in my birthday card?

Nah, she'll just write me a check for two dollars.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

MW that is awesome

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks dude.

http://www.rchumane.org/cat_money.jpg

― VALLEY OF BLIZZARDZ (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bigcatrescue.org/images/HybridBengalCatlippi_cat.jpg

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

WUHT

― stoked for the madness (nickalicious), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

I know, right?

― Allyzay Eisenschefter Pop You To The Extreme (allyzay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

four years pass...

It's five years later and they are still yet to catch on. I use 'em a lot but I think I'm the only one who does. I am very amused by the idea of them printing Grover Cleveland on two non-consecutive occasions. Maybe these will catch on more when they start printing the more recent presidents? I can't be the only one who would love some Bill Clinton currency...

― frogbs, Monday, 8 August 2011 14:06 (fourteen years ago)

I just like the idea of slipping dollar coins into the thong of strippers till it hangs low like they've shat themselves.

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:59 (4 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:16 (fourteen years ago)

okay now I've just shat myself laughing

― swaguirre, the wrath of basedgod (bernard snowy), Monday, 8 August 2011 14:22 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09/group_of_republican_congressme.html

who even wants 5.5 billion dollars if it is in dollar coins

― mr. vertical (schlump), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

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