The KGB Oracle Forums General Public Discussion (PUBLIC) The Pub How do you stand on this subject

I like the dollar coins but I guess thats the Canadian in me. I use them all the time for tooth fairy money and special occasions. Right now you can get them at the post office or request an order directly from your bank. Americans aren't real big on massive change like this though. We were supposed to go into a metric system back in the 80's and look how well that turned out. Seriously if I had 20 dollars in coins I'd probably spend them all just so I wouldn't have to lug them around. Its good to have but I don't feel it should replace the paper dollar.

I like the dollar coins myself, but they are a pain to use from time to time.

True story:

Stopped by the post office to pick up some stamps. From my last trip I stuck a $20 in the machine and it spit out my book of stamps and my change in the lovely $1 coins. Ok, np. Put em in the drawer at home and waited until I had to buy stamps again.

Fast forward about a year.

Back at the post office, armed with $1 coins to buy some more stamps. Machine is on the fritz this time around so I get to stand in line at the counter.

Get up there, ask for a book of stamps and proceed to pay for them with the aforementioned $1 coins. The clerk looks at me like I'm from another planet and flatly states:

" You can't use those to pay for this. "

* What follows is my best " Don't make me throw these at you " look *

I remind the clerk that these very coins came out of THEIR GD stamp machine and if they're good enough to give to me, then they're good enough to give back.

Long story short, she shut up took the coins and I was on my merry way.



-Daye

These work well in conjunction with the 2 dollar coin up in Canada. I bet these would catch on like crazy to people other than just coin collectors as soon as all vending machines, publc phones etc... become 1 dollar coin compatible. These would work, they would just need to implement at 2 dollar coin as well. Take a lesson from our neighbor to the north.