New Dollar Coin

[peregrinus_WA]

i can hardly stand that place as it is. i dont think i could handle a machine over a person on top of it.

the only good memories of the post office i have are from childhood when i went with my dad to get a prelimanary weighing of my pinewood derby car there, since those were the scales used at the meet.

People actually use the post office?

For me, I have used it once in the past year and that was for my Taxes. I pay all but two of my bills electronically and the other two I walk over to the apartment office to pay.

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

Many vending machines (and copiers in courthouses) will give change in the dollar coins. They are referred to, in some regions, as ‘yang dollars’, after an old Richard Pryor joke.

Their use here is reasonable when you consider that the Canadians really don’t have a paper single dollar any more. Think of the tax dollars we could save going strictly to dollar coins!

 

[didymus]

We need to quit printing one-dollar bills, until then dollar coins will just languish. Given the fallen purchasing power of the dollar it’s much more logical to have a dollar coin (or $1 and $2 coins like our Canadian friends).

Lets’ ditch the penny while we’re at it too.

PS – it is SODA. Pop is what yokels drink setting around at the gin’rul store. Coke is a registered trademark referring to a single brand. I don’t care what anyone else says, I do not subscribe to the permissive, amoral “descrptivist” school of linguistics.

 

[Muzhik]

Lets’ ditch the penny while we’re at it too.

You’d best not express that thought when you’re in Illinois. As long as Chicago has a working political machine, America will have a penny.

(For those readers outside the United States, the US penny has the profile of Abraham Lincoln on it. Since Abe came from the great state of Illinois, that state has an attachment to that coin.)

 

[Beau_Ouiville]

I moved from the land of Roosevelt and ‘soda’ to the Land of Lincoln and ‘pop’. And I don’t want any ‘pop’ in ‘paper sack’ either, thank you very much. Put that soda in a bag and keep the three pennies change!

Ditch the dollar bill and cut back on pennies.

Let’s save some tax dollars.

 

[didymus]

You’d best not express that thought when you’re in Illinois. As long as Chicago has a working political machine, America will have a penny.

How about we bump Jefferson off the nickel (VA already has Washington on the quarter) and give that to Lincoln? Or he could go on the new $2 coin.

 

[Nick_in_MB]

1. its a coke. i dont care if its coke, pepsi or dr. pepper its a coke. allow me to demonstrate a normal restruant conversation:
   -waitress"what do you want to drink?"
   -customer"a coke"
   -waitress"what kind?"
   -customer"dr. pepper"

Here, that never happens. It goes like this.

• waitress “what do you want to drink?”
• customer “coke”
• waitress “pepsi okay?”
  Because they sell Pepsi. And in NJ, “coke” just meant that you wanted pepsi, coca-cola, the local generic brand from the supermarket, except RC, that’s different.

Oh, and I love these coins. I only get them now at the post office when I go there. But when I eat out, if the service isn’t all that good, I’ll still leave a tip, but it’s in dollar coin form.

 

[Ridgerunner]

This coin is way too late.

You know how the cowboys in movies would walk into a bar and flip a silver dollar onto the counter and order “whiskey”. The bartender would set a bottle of whiskey in front of him with a cork in it that the cowboy would pull out with his teeth. I have always wanted to walk into a bar and do that, but there is currently no circulated coin of sufficient value to begin to pay for even a shot of whiskey. I say it’s a conspiracy to make us drink cokes!

 

[Jennifer_G]

It’s on snopes.com somewhere. I think there were only a few of them made.

 

[BobCatholic]

My brother-in-law just sent me an e-mail that says and shows that the new dollar coin has “In God We Trust” gone. Can anyone confirm this? If this is true then it is suggested that we refuse them and ask for a paper dollar bill.

They had some which had that motto gone from the side. But it was restored.

 

[Rolltide]

They had some which had that motto gone from the side. But it was restored.

It should be noted that the ones without the motto were misprints. They were always intended to have the motto, as it is a requirement of all US coinage.

 

[Digitonomy]

Post Office… go to the Post Office. That is where I got my larder of Sacajawea dollars.

Unfortunately, the post office is phasing out stamp vending machines.

 

[BobCatholic]

This coin is way too late.

You know how the cowboys in movies would walk into a bar and flip a silver dollar onto the counter and order “whiskey”. The bartender would set a bottle of whiskey in front of him with a cork in it that the cowboy would pull out with his teeth. I have always wanted to walk into a bar and do that, but there is currently no circulated coin of sufficient value to begin to pay for even a shot of whiskey. I say it’s a conspiracy to make us drink cokes!

Oh, you can still do that with a silver dollar, just find a bartender who likes to collect coins, and a silver dollar worth his while

 

[garysibio]

As has been pointed out the inscription is on the rim along with the mint mark. Because of the confusion’ it will be moved to the surface although I don’t know if that’s scheduled for this year or next.

However, some of the coins with Washington and Adams were accidentally issued without the inscription. If you find one they are worth $100-200, depending on their condition.

Gary