New $1 coin- would the changes make YOU use them?

[bisonbison]

Could they have picked less inspiring presidents?

Put Teddy Roosevelt on a coin. Put Jefferson on another.

[Anacardo]

TIPPECANOE AND TYLER TOO

[Shajen]

[censored] the dollar coin.

It's retarded and annoying

[econophile]

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Could they have picked less inspiring presidents?

Put Teddy Roosevelt on a coin. Put Jefferson on another.

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I think they are releasing every president, a la state quarters.

[StevieG]

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Could they have picked less inspiring presidents?

Put Teddy Roosevelt on a coin. Put Jefferson on another.

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Bison-

Pattern match on the fritz today?

The mint did not pick anyone. Those are #1-4. They are going in order.

[econophile]

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Why would you want to carry 20-30 dollar coins? Isn't that like carrying $5 in quarters now?

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does OP regularly carry 20-30 dollar bills?

[NT!]

We're moving away from cash money in general. More and more small purchases can easily be made with plastic. Coins are not gonna catch on.

[benza13]

Coins suck. I have 1 of my cupholders in my car filled with them for meters/tolls and other junk and big container at home. Cash them in once a year or so. They are only in my pocket until I dump them into one of these places.

[mosdef]

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[censored] the dollar coin.

It's retarded and annoying

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Explain. To me, it seems pretty clear that with the effect of inflation you would want to replace low denomination bills with coins. Think about it - if quarters made sense as the cut-off in the past, then whatever the equivalent is in today's dollars should be the cut-off now.

Even more sensible would be a total elimination of pennies. If we needed to track transactions to 1/100th of a dollar 100 years ago, and a dollar is worth around 1/20th of what it used to be, we should be rounding to the nearest 5 cents now. The cost of producing pennies is a huge waste of time and money.

[Shajen]

nothing really to explain...I don't like change. I have several bottles of change at home, buying something for $6 dollars paying with a $10) and getting 4 coins back is really annoying.