Dollar Coins From The 70's To Present (Discussion)

jbuck you are absolutely right.

I am not a fan of it when thinking about it, but I would easily adapt and can even envision it in my head.

In fact, I spent several weeks at a time in Europe in the last few years (for work, not for vacation) and had 1 and 2 euro coins in my pocket and got used to it easily and it did not make me upset or sad to have the coins in my pocket.

@Buymyemu
People who like the coin idea will say that you would not need to if you keep track of all the coins in your pocket and engineer it for each purchase so that you never have too have much weight in your pocket.

The thing is - this is totally unnecessary and, quite honestly, (trying to be nice here) its kind of ridiculous to have to worry about it. Who wants to?

The SBA failed somewhat due to the same type of thing. People thought it a ridiculous dea to have to worry about whether or not the "quarter" they felt in their hand/pocket was a "quarter" or not. It was an inconvenience that did not have to exist.

Sure, people COULD have used SBAs IF they were willing to check every time to see whether it was a quarter or SBA in their hand - but why? And again, most people don't look at their money anyway.

Part of the reason I was surprised that I had 12 ones is that I stopped using cash about 5 years ago. I carry zero coins, I only spend a one if I buy something less than $1. for EVERYTHING else I use a credit card and pay it off each month. Gives me a record of what I spend. I do keep a couple big ones in my wallet just in case.

For me.. 99% cashless society.

I think the '76-P type I Ike is one of the greatest sleepers ever. There were only a couple million made and a couple more million for mint sets. The low mintage was not common knowledge at the time so many actually degraded in "circulation". Over time large numbers of the mint set coins have also been spent. What many people still don't realize is that if you want a nice attractive BU example you'll have to pick through about a dozen mint sets or several rolls because typical quality of these is simply atrocious. Now that poorly stored mint set coins are often tarnished there might be as few as seven to ten thousand nice attractive examples that the average collector desires. It seems even AU's and poor examples should bring more than the current wholesale of about $2.50

Gems are quite scarce for this date as there is widespread retained planchet marking and ubiquitous scratches. Sometimes even strike is an issue on mint set coins. They appear only in the '75 mint sets and no mules have been reported to date.

Same here, other than coin shows and a couple of Mom & Pop's (who round cash totals down to avoid giving out cents). I will not even call it plastic, since my use of Android Pay is steadily increasing.


I never had to keep inventory when I was a heavy cash user, I just knew what I had. Not really difficult. It was almost second nature, like not having to look at a keyboard while typing or remembering old CCF threads so I can link them.


That is why I had 'unwillingly' in parentheses. I am sure more than a few have willingly 'loaded up' with change to have something to look through later.

Everyone has their own talents.

Darth has a very valid point even if he was not serious about a compilation.

Its great to have someone so in tune to the clad options of this hobby on CCF like cladking .

Darth...if you would get serious about this... please post.

Thanks a lot guys. Fifteen or twenty years ago it was just me and a small handful of other guys who knew anything about moderns and clads but now there are many people and I'm sure many have passed me by.

Clads are a lot of fun for me and this will never end. There's always more tolearn and more to appreciate.