This is something that actually bugs me. People back in the day could actually make useful purchases with coins. I want a 50c, 1d, 2d, 5d, and 10d coins. Loose the penny and maybe even nickels
They introduced the Sacagawea dollar coins a while back with the expectations that people would use them for daily transactions. After an initial brief interest, they quickly fell off. Turns out that people in the US don’t really care to use coins, and used the paper $1 bills at every opportunity.
I used them. We had a drink dispenser on a college campus that would dispense Sacagawea coins as change and I would feed spare change and get my dollars back and save them until I had enough to make a coin purse like a pirate and go spend them at the bar.
I want 20 dollar coins too. If you take inflation from early 1800s to now the dollar coin would be worth more.
Someone could probably successfully pitch this to Trump with. “We waste so much money on printing bills, coins last forever” “paper money is so dirty” “We could shut down the Denver mint once we have enough coins made” “They will all be plated in gold type material” “we will put your face on the 20 coin, everybody will see your face forever everyday”
MintyFresh@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is something that actually bugs me. People back in the day could actually make useful purchases with coins. I want a 50c, 1d, 2d, 5d, and 10d coins. Loose the penny and maybe even nickels
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
They introduced the Sacagawea dollar coins a while back with the expectations that people would use them for daily transactions. After an initial brief interest, they quickly fell off. Turns out that people in the US don’t really care to use coins, and used the paper $1 bills at every opportunity.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I used them. We had a drink dispenser on a college campus that would dispense Sacagawea coins as change and I would feed spare change and get my dollars back and save them until I had enough to make a coin purse like a pirate and go spend them at the bar.
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
We ditched the penny in Canada years ago. Nickels and dimes are near useless
eva@discuss.online 1 day ago
The U.S. also stopped minting pennies last year.
Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I want 20 dollar coins too. If you take inflation from early 1800s to now the dollar coin would be worth more.
Someone could probably successfully pitch this to Trump with. “We waste so much money on printing bills, coins last forever” “paper money is so dirty” “We could shut down the Denver mint once we have enough coins made” “They will all be plated in gold type material” “we will put your face on the 20 coin, everybody will see your face forever everyday”
… On second thought maybe don’t pitch it to him