Don't you love congressional mandates?

beat me to it arkangel...

How am I ever going to get over my Chester A Arthuritis now?

What, I love those things. I particularly love the expression on wait staffs face when they realize that all coin tip is not $2.50, but $10.

cptjeff: Bladel: Can we stop messing around with obscure presidents and Sacajawea and Susan B. Anthony and just put George on the damn things and be done with the $1 bill already?

A-farking-men. You wanna save the government a bunch of money? Kill the $1 bill.

KILL THE BILL!!

So much for the hope that conservatives would finally get a dollar coin they would use: the Reagan Dollar.

cptjeff: Bladel: Can we stop messing around with obscure presidents and Sacajawea and Susan B. Anthony and just put George on the damn things and be done with the $1 bill already?

A-farking-men. You wanna save the government a bunch of money? Kill the $1 bill.

While we are at it kill the penny, nickle, dime and quarter.

scottydoesntknow: I will only purchase coins minted with the smoldering wreckage of the WTC towers.

What about coins clad in 31 mg of pure gold?????

Bladel: Can we stop messing around with obscure presidents and Sacajawea and Susan B. Anthony and just put George on the damn things and be done with the $1 bill already?

Which George? HW, W, Washington, or Clinton?

Chester A. Arthur fall down...

Bladel: Can we stop messing around with obscure presidents and Sacajawea and Susan B. Anthony and just put George on the damn things and be done with the $1 bill already?

The $1 bill is the problem; not the parade of faces gracing the yellow coins.
Somehow we survived "State" quarters.

Flakeloaf: How am I ever going to get over my Chester A Arthuritis now?

Heh heh... you have arthritis?

Still the production on Ningi and the Triganic Pu goes on, unchecked.

/hot, like it's value.

So, how much is this going to add to my deficit?

there their theyre: Bladel: Can we stop messing around with obscure presidents and Sacajawea and Susan B. Anthony and just put George on the damn things and be done with the $1 bill already?

Which George? HW, W, Washington, or Clinton?

I've been saying the only reason they're doing these is so W could be on money.

scottydoesntknow: Can a piece of it stand up in memoriam?

Hence the Ron Jeremy quarter.

Good thing I loaded up on Chester Cheetah coins.

oh gawd. Its. ITS!!!!!

/sorry FlowerBob.

GoodOmens: scottydoesntknow: I will only purchase coins minted with the smoldering wreckage of the WTC towers.

What about coins clad in 31 mg of pure gold?????

From a Nigerian mint.

I ordered 250 dollar coins from the mint to circulate, trying to do my part. But people here are right, it won't work till the dollar bill is dead. People will complain about it for a couple months, then suck it up and move on with life (exactly what happened in Canada).

It's the damn cotton lobby keeping the dollar bill alive. Seriously.

scottydoesntknow: GoodOmens: scottydoesntknow: I will only purchase coins minted with the smoldering wreckage of the WTC towers.

What about coins clad in 31 mg of pure gold?????

Can a piece of it stand up in memoriam?

No - but it has a individually numbered Certificate of Authenticity, verifying that each piece is clad in 14 mgs. With gold prices skyrocketing - my coin with a melt value of 77 cents might be worth $1 in about 5 years!!! I would have bought more, but I was limited to 5 due to high demand.

Have they made the James Buchanan coin yet?

scottydoesntknow: I will only purchase coins minted with the smoldering wreckage of the WTC towers.

I know people will mock me for this, but I bought as many of those as I could.

You can laugh now, but when the time comes, it will be I who avoided disappointment and future regret.

/.9999
//That's four goddamn nines worth of purity
///No, not really.

elvisaintdead: Don't these people know strippers catch enough in the face already?

It's a common mistake, but it can't be said enough, if you're going to tip a stripper with coins, most have built in coin slots, one in the front and one in the rear, Just show the coin to the stripper, and gesture to have them bring the slot down to eye level to make the deposit!

////the more you know

Eliminating $1 bills is easy. Pass a law, stop printing them, gather the remaining bills as they go through banks, pulp them and only issue dollar coins to force their adoption. And consider issuing coinage for $2 and $5 denominations too. I fail to see why the US finds this so mind bogglingly difficult.

Supes: I ordered 250 dollar coins from the mint to circulate, trying to do my part. But people here are right, it won't work till the dollar bill is dead. People will complain about it for a couple months, then suck it up and move on with life (exactly what happened in Canada).

It's the damn cotton lobby keeping the dollar bill alive. Seriously.

When I ran into Senator Mike Enzi at a convenience store in Wyoming a few years ago I asked him about this, and he blamed the ghost of Ted Kennedy. According to Mike, the wood pulp and paper/cloth mill for paper money is in Massachusetts. I reminded Mike that Ted had died.

You're next ...


/oblig

cptjeff: I should add that I love dollar coins, but never use them. Why? Because I get dollar bills in my change. They actually circulate. If I want dollar coins, I have to go way out of my way for 'em. Ad campaigns begging for people to use the dollar coin (yes, I've seen 'em) aren't going to do a damn thing. If you want to change behavior, it can't require much more effort to do the thing you want.

There are a few places around here that give you dollar coins as change (stamp kiosks, light rail kiosks). I find it annoying as fark, because they won't give you any other bill or coin (other than quarters at the light rail). So, a while back I got to ride the train with $16 in farking coins in my pocket, instead of nice, light, handy bills. That sucked.

I get $1000 bricks of uncirculated dollar coins by ordering through my bank. I use them for bridge/highway tolls. The toll collectors seem to like them. I keep my car ash tray filled with the coins. It's handy..

/KILL THE BILL

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/hot, like it's value.

Also:

Oh, we finally stopped wasting money minting coins no one wants? Finally.

Came here for Die Hard, well done, people.

Because People in power are Stupid: The Warren G. Harding dollar costs the US Mint twice as much as it's value and the George W Bush dollar is hollow inside.

Pennies cost more to produce than they are worth too. They are worth so little that many people leave them in a little cup at the checkout register for the next person to use. Just stop making them. If the little cup is empty, the store will figure out how to round off cash transactions. The round-ups and round-downs will roughly cancel out at the end of each shift.

There's probably more underhanded motive behind the minting of all these dollar coins.

There's a legal statute which limits how much money the government can add to the total volume of money- bills and electronic- in circulation at any one time. This law prevents rampant inflation and is key to protecting our credit rating.

However, oddly enough, the statute does NOT cover physical coinage, in any denomination. Legally, Congress could authorize the production of a trillion dollars in quarters, or, as was suggested in last year's budget crisis, Obama could issue an Executive Order to create two $1Trillion coins. The coin could not be circulated of course, but rather would stand as a bizarre reserve to fund its payments. This would NOT sit well with our creditors, as a demonstration of a capability and willingness to inflate the money supply at will harbinges inflationary spirals which would make our loans worthless.

So production of dollar coins did allow them to make a few billion in currency out of nothing- not really an overall game-changer, but did help close the budget in some minor capacity.