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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
The US now wants to get rid of $1 bills in exchange for $1 coins. They seem to forget that they tried this in 1979 and nobody liked it, they tried again in 1999 and nobody liked it, so true to good political sense, they are now minting millions of them again to be circulated.
They say that there will be a savings of 5 billion dollars after several years, as the coins last longer than the paper/cloth bills. I think they could save 5 billion dollars even faster if they would just stop sending soldiers off to fight other countries battles, and stop letting the politicians raise their own salaries every other month!
Stitchawl
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I guess I must be nobody because I like them, and use them whenever I have the chance; which isn't often!
The trouble they've had with the more recent iterations is the size of them; they too closely resemble 25 cent and 50 cent pieces, and are easily confused with those. Why don’t they just go back to the size of the original silver dollar, which coincidentally is the same size as Las Vegas casino chips?