Dollar Coins A Turn-Off

This subject is so old it should be in the ancients folder.

100 years ago the Morgan was NOT a loved coin. People preferred paper then for the same reason they do today. Light weight. The only time people may have loved dollar coins would have been before 1862 or 1874, a time when paper money was either of questionable value (before 1862), or when the paper was worth less than the coin (before 1874). After 1874 when the paper traded at par withthe coin and we freely convertible to coin on demand, why carry the heavy coins.

Sadly, it will probably remain relevant in the US for a long, long time.

That is sort of what I meant. We will be de facto cashless before anything is done to change our money. We will continue to debate it until that end. I give it a generation or two at most.

The motivations are purely political, like every Dollar coin issued after the Seated dollars (and even the later years of those, once silver was discovered in the West).

I found myself in the lovely city of Victoria, BC, Canada in July and bought a few of these guys home with me to Texas. Saw a lot of them floating around up there, it didn't seem to be a problem. This is one area where I think we could really learn a lesson from our neighbors to the north. Our Native American designs are beautiful (but would be more so with the date/mm on the obverse) and I wish they circulated more (or at all, really). Down with paper! Up with coins!