Dollar Coin Usage: A Challenge To You!

Why would an obama sticker be legal and a WG one not be?

I spend BU Denver Mint Dollar Coins all the time! I get at least two rolls of them or more whenever I'm at the Denver Mint Gift Shop.

I love using them at the car wash and self-checkout machines, it sure beats fumbling with all those quarters at the car wash, and the 'in-and-out dance' that worn/torn bills just love to do in self-checkout machines (I've even scored nice 1950's-60's paper notes from people who couldn't get them to work in the self-checkout!).

Naturally, I search them for errors and high-MS examples (sadly, I have yet to find one missing the edge lettering!), but that leaves me plenty of them to spend.

Many of Denver's street parking meters take 26.5mm Dollar coins but not credit/debit cards or paper notes, so there's one functional advantage right there!

The only 'issue' I've ever had when spending them was at one computer store where the cashier called his manager (he hadn't even seen a Presidential dollar before!). Never any problems anywhere else. Every teenage cashier at McDonald's just takes them with no fuss...

One Chinese restaurant family even asked me if I had any more 2009-D Native American dollars (when I paid with them), and I sold them the two rolls I had in the car!

PS: My credit union doesn't carry Dollar coins, so it's either the Wells Fargo account at work or the Denver Mint for me!

Personally, I don't like anything in my pockets. So the dollar bills are in my wallet folded around the larger bills all facing same way. I usually carry my wallet, keep it in a glove box or under my hat on the seat of my car, or in my brief bag at work. When I get change for a dollar, it goes in my ashtray, after I take a quick look, or as soon as I get home, it goes on the kitchen counter and eventually sorted into large medicine bottles for eventual trips to the car wash or into rolls.
If they move to having $5.00 or $2.00 bills being the next lowest paper money we use, then I will just end up doing the same thing with dollar coins as I do with quarters.
Inflation just makes this a better way to save change and have it add up for me.
Either way, I could care less. I don't like messing with coins to make purchases.

every time I hit a store, I look in the drawer, and buy whatever they have for Dollar coins, and re-distribute them myself. It's all that we can do to get things circulating.

I am just spending the last of my 250 Dollar coins from the mint. I soon will order another 250.

I am now looking over the mints direct ship program for the dollar coins. Face value and free shipping seems a bargain to me. Now the question remains, which would be more fun to spend...the prez dollars or the Native American dollars? Hmm...

I took the mint up on their $1 circulating coin program and got $250.00 native american coins. I looked through them and found about 25 in a condition worth keeping. The others I spend a couple at a time...coffee shop...grocery store ... small purchases. Most people do a double take on them still...like they have never seen one before. I'd like to see them get into routine circulation but don't think they will ever be as readily accepted as a quarter...unless, of course, they get rid of the paper dollar first.

That's funny, Maine_Jim. But, I was wondering if you had a cull or below AG 1800's coin and decided to spend that at a store, what kind of expression you would get from the cashier.