Have you seen the US $1 Coin?

[disneysteve]

I stopped carrying my wallet a couple years ago, because I never used 95% of what I keep in it.

I now just carry my CC and a little cash.

Wish I could do that. Too many things in my wallet that I do use regularly, and the ones I use infrequently I never know when I'll need, so they have to be with me.

[LuckyRobin]

If I use the stamp vending machine at the post office to buy stamps after hours, I'll get a dollar coin back in my change. That's the only time I ever see them.

[JimInOK]

We have several of them. We vacationed last year at Branson, MO and their theme park (Silver Dollar City) was celebrating its 50th anniversary. As part of the celebration, they were giving these coins back as change from in-park purchases. (Not silver dollars like the name of the park, but coin dollars at least). It was great! When the kids made souvenir purchases and got them back as change, they loved them and decided they wanted to keep them. So, for the first time ever, they didn't spend their entire budgets on junk that has long since been lost, trashed or otherwise forgotten!

[MonkeyMama]

Yes - we got them as change at a parking garage.

Actually, I know a lot of parents have been using them as tooth fairy money. I thought maybe my MIL had gotten them for the kids or something - but my dh just confirmed he just got them as change.

[AmySL]

Never saw one...
Could someone please post a picture.

[snafu]

Canada switched from $1. paper to coin in 1987 and it has been said to save $250 million. The gov`t wants to reduce spending but the public rejects change. I still have a boxful of JFK half dollars and there was no uproar when they were produced. I`m guessing there are 2 million of these in boxes all over the world. I think there is also a box of silver dollars cast for various presidents with DH's coin collection. Were these cast for collectors or were they in general service?

[disneysteve]

Canada switched from $1. paper to coin in 1987 and it has been said to save $250 million. The gov`t wants to reduce spending but the public rejects change. I still have a boxful of JFK half dollars and there was no uproar when they were produced. I`m guessing there are 2 million of these in boxes all over the world. I think there is also a box of silver dollars cast for various presidents with DH's coin collection. Were these cast for collectors or were they in general service?

The half-dollar coin wasn't made in place of anything else. We still had quarters. We still had both paper and metal dollars, so no reason for any uproar.

I'm not aware of any presidential silver dollars. Those may have just been commemorative coins, not actual circulating legal tender.

The public does resist change. That's why I said the only way to get rid of the dollar bill and get people to use a dollar coin is to force the issue. Stop producing the bills.

[hellok4713]

Never saw one...
Could someone please post a picture.

There is a link in the second post from Joan.of.the.Arch. I would post a link but I haven't quite made 15 posts yet