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I haven't asked for a roll of them but the bank tellers seem to keep a fairly random selection in their trays,mostly biased towards the newest ones. At least on the couple of occasions I have been in there asking about them. I did get my Eisenhower dollar there, though. (Thank you for the info on that one's name!) |
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Rest in Peace
United States
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I received an Ike dollar recently in change from a convenience store. Paper $1 bill has to go before metal dollars will be used. For political reasons, the paper dollar stays, at least for now. Being a history teacher for 35 years, I like the Presidential series. I have a Dansco Album for DPS, and have saved quite a few of each President to give to our grandkids. |
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United States
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I'd like to see the dollar bills phased out and the coin increase in use. We waste money printing money that doesn't last, when the coins would survive longer in circulation. On the value of collecting the golden dollars: I don't claim understand much of what goes on a lot of ebay coin auctions, but every time a roll of Sacagawea 2002,3,4(?) goes up for auction it seems to get 5 and 6 times face value! Can't be entirely worthless to hold on to some of these things! Besides you know in a buncha years everyone's gonna want a Washington, since they'll have lost track of many of the blander presidents in the long 19th century! (I'll hoard a roll of McKinley's, you bet! Remember the Maine!) And the mint'll pull a fast one and make low mintages here and there; say on Coolidge's SECOND coin... |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Coolidge's SECOND coin You mean Clevelands? I think not, mate. He was the only Democratic president during that slew of Republicans, and he also helped to smooth the tarrifs with Europe and South America that allowed the start of Dollaring the world, which was even more exploited by TR. Ah.... APUSH... how I love you now... |
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United States
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Dag! Meant Cleveland!  That'll teach me for posting at 2AM! |
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I'd like to see the dollar bills phased out and the coin increase in use. We waste money printing money that doesn't last, when the coins would survive longer in circulation.  and  |
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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every time a roll of Sacagawea 2002,3,4(?) goes up for auction it seems to get 5 and 6 times face value! That would be because those are NIFC coins that were only available from the Mint for a premium price, the Sackies only had business strikes in 2000 and 2001. However, they will still turn up at banks occasionally, probably due to collectors searching for high grade examples from the Mint bags and rolls and then releasing the not so high grade examples. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I never knew they were phasing out stamp machines. I had seen it happen here a while back, but I thought they didn't want people breaking into them because the economy was getting bad  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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jbuck: "My two closest post offices now have machines that only accept debit/credit cards." Likewise, and that ticks me off because I pay with cash!  ( It would tick me off even more if I didn't pay all my bills online or with cash, and I actually needed stamps!  ) One cashier thought I'd got my Presidential dollars from the Post Office, but I've never received any as change from there.... Edited by DNA
12/15/2008 9:21 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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There's only ONE correct answer for why these do not circulate. Because the government will NOT stop making $1 notes. As soon as the $1 note is gone, they can quit wasting our tax dollars trying to advertise coins that WILL NOT circulate until the $1 note is GONE.
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United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I don't collect Prz or Sac coins but occassionally when I go to the bank I 'll ask for a roll or two, check out the new designs and spend them at stores. It's a shame the goverment wants to waste so much money. |
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Valued Member
United States
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I got my first Pres. dollar coin in change yesterday at a gas station :) First time I've seen one in the wild.
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United States
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Yes, the dollar bills have got to go before these coins will really see use. It's a shame, I'd like to start getting random presidents and sacs (new design coming right?) in my change instead of boring ol' bills. They could do for US History what the statehoods have done for US geography! |
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New Member
United States
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It was about 20 years ago when we in the UK switched from pound notes to coins. Everyone moaned about the new coins (too heavy, too easy to lose etc) and then quickly got used to them.
It annoys me now that I never collected all the different designs on them - they were money after all and I had things I needed to buy! But as I'm sure any Brits or collectors of world coins knows, there have been plenty of different designs over the years.
If the US Mint did ditch the dollar bill then I'm sure coins would become accepted, and we could all enjoy new designs over time. And the US would have one less almost-identical banknote denomination!
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Posted 12/15/2008 01:30 am
