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JOCCO

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How many feel they should stop making dollar coins or silver dollars. No one seems to want them. What about the half dollar/fifty cent piece. While were on it the $2 dollar bill??? Around here only one bank carries them to any extent.
 
Dollar coins are still made.I work in Cedar Rapids Iowa where we make coin material for the mints.We don't run any penny material but all the rest. Our vending machines at work use dollar coins they work much better than trying to use a old dollar bill. The can return store gives $2 bills for money kind of a novelty.
 
I think the toll road in Kansas still gives dollar coins at the unmanned exits, put in paper bills and get coins for change.
 
Paper money sure is easier to carry around rather than coins. I think someday everything is going to be on plastic anyway....
 
Jocco........first job I had, the owners wife gave me a sack of nuts with gold foil wrapped silver dollars at Christmas. I thought they were those foil wrapped chocolate dollars. Left'em fer my folks 'cuz I didn't like the nuts. Mom really got the coins, $10 worth. Years later, I stopped atta hi-way rest stop fer sumptin' to drink and machine said it took $5-bills fer the $2 drink. As I was outta $1-bills, I fed a $5-bill inna slot. Clank, clank, clank. Out dropped my change, 3-GOLD colored coins the size of quarters. Somewhere, I gotta real $10-gold coin the size of a Roosevelt dime. One of these days, I'm gonna gitt a real $20-gold coin, US double-eagle, altho a South African Rand or Canadian Maple-Leaf would work. I used to have a real $3-bill from the Bahamas off'n the coast of Florida. .......Dell
 
I have some of each.

On our fiftieth anniversary last October, even though we requested no gifts, some friends of ours gave us 20 gold (metal) dollars.

I understand the $2 bills were originally created to make pari-mutual betting easier.
 

Canadian Maple-Leaf the price is down I will gladly sell you my stash at the high price I paid fer'em in 2012/13..

I would then buy more with your money while the price has tanked... Sounds like a good pol-loc trade to me...
 
I don't see the penny going away soon. I simply do not like the idea of "rounding" everything. Somebody always gets the short end of that. Pennies may not be worth much, but in a year's time, rounding can add up.
The $2 bill is simply redundant. Too close to a single, does not fit in well with our other bills.
Half dollars and silver dollars are simply too big for carrying comfortably.
The dollar coin is too close in size and too similar to a quarter.
The dollar coin might do better if it were a bit bigger. Like in between the current half dollar and the quarter. Enough bigger than the quarter to not be mistaken, enough smaller than a half dollar to be comfortably carried.

My two cents. LOL
 
In reality, half the time you get the "short end" of the stick. The other half, you get the "long end" of the stick, so it balances out.
 
When I was stationed in Germany during the mid-80's, the PX's and anyone on the bases rounded up or down to the nearest nickle. I got used to it and liked it. Also, on American bases overseas, that's where all of the odd currencies like the $2.00 bill, Susan B. Anthony dollar and the sort ended up. Had I kept every new, crisp $2.00 that passed through my fingers over there, I'd be in pretty good shape now. If I had every Susan B. Anthony that I staggered up to a vending machine after drinking some really fine German beer and used as a quarter because they were the same size and I was too hammered to see the difference, I'd also be pretty well off. I don't know what that golden coin dollar looks like so much now, but once a couple of years ago I hit a personless toll booth on an Interstate that had a machine that took coins or bills, my cost was something over $4.00 and all I had was a $20 bill which I inserted and it accepted, then it spit out all golden dollar coins at me in change, some that ended up under my truck with a line of vehicles behind me, so I retrieved what I could and drove off with some lying there. These days when someone tries to hand me a golden dollar as part of my change, I refuse to accept it. Give me bills, give me other coins, but no golden dollar. Right now, I have a $100 bill. I don't care for them much, but if the tab is big enough and change back to me is $20 or under, most people will take them these days. Its when they have to give back more than $20, I notice they don't care much for that.

Mark
 
I always carry a $2.00 bill in my billfold. No other cash goes in it. I carry all other cash in my pocket. The $2.00 bill is always there in case of an emergency. I like getting the $1.00 coins. I have been saving them for quite awhile. I am an ATV'er and the plan is that when a group of us go on an extended trip is to use them for expenses to show how much money we bring to the local economies.
 
just went to a gun show in Nashville TN last weekend. $8 admission $2 bill in change for a 10, 2 bills in change for a 20. First I've seen in years. When I used'em at stores, nobody batted an eye.
 
Is the one dollar Canadian coin called a Loonie for the loon on the face and and the two dollar coin called a Toonie? I thought I saw that on a Canadian TV show.
 
No one wants them as the merchants do not want them because their cash drawers were not made with sections for them so they had a problem handling them as they had to put those items under the cash drawer in the section made for putting in the checks. Now if register makers would have put in sections in cash drawer for pennies, nickles, dimes, quarters, half dollars and dollar coins and bill slots foe $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 dollar bills then they would have been more accepting of them. They still a lot of registers do not have places for a 50 or a hundred so if thy get them they still have to go in check drawer. And when I buy items for the Amish dealer I work with he pays me in hundreds and then fiftys usually.
 
I meet a couple form canada when in Hawaii, that's what they told me too. Again, not sure what part? Very nice couple.
 
(quoted from post at 16:53:35 02/22/16) When I was stationed in Germany during the mid-80's, the PX's and anyone on the bases rounded up or down to the nearest nickle. I got used to it and liked it. Also, on American bases overseas, that's where all of the odd currencies like the $2.00 bill, Susan B. Anthony dollar and the sort ended up. Had I kept every new, crisp $2.00 that passed through my fingers over there, I'd be in pretty good shape now. If I had every Susan B. Anthony that I staggered up to a vending machine after drinking some really fine German beer and used as a quarter because they were the same size and I was too hammered to see the difference, I'd also be pretty well off. I don't know what that golden coin dollar looks like so much now, but once a couple of years ago I hit a personless toll booth on an Interstate that had a machine that took coins or bills, my cost was something over $4.00 and all I had was a $20 bill which I inserted and it accepted, then it spit out all golden dollar coins at me in change, some that ended up under my truck with a line of vehicles behind me, so I retrieved what I could and drove off with some lying there. These days when someone tries to hand me a golden dollar as part of my change, I refuse to accept it. Give me bills, give me other coins, but no golden dollar. Right now, I have a $100 bill. I don't care for them much, but if the tab is big enough and change back to me is $20 or under, most people will take them these days. Its when they have to give back more than $20, I notice they don't care much for that.

Mark
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I used to work for a retired Army colonel. He told me that the military liked to pas out $2 bills and oddball coins to remind the local citizens how much the military contributed to the local economy.
 
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