"Usa Act" May Kill Penny, Nickel & $1 Bill

The dollar coins will be carefully placed on the stage.

ATB are boring, the only thing I like about them is the ring around the outside on the reverse to encase he field of the design. Imagine doing that with a cent or nickel to have not the state and park on the ring, but the words. Then you could put a hole in the middle to reduce the cost of the cent by maybe 30% as the leftover from the blanks being punched also has some doughnut-holes to be reused to make more.

I still can't figure out why Jefferson isn't on the dime or cent since it was decimal coinage that he wanted and he gets stuck on the non-decimal coin and between them.

Maybe we will get lucky and they will realize that one bit is never used and 2-bits isn't good for anything and the quarter will be remove when the ATB are over with. then reissue the half and have 1, 5, 10, 50, $1. I mean if you need 3 of one coin that two of it makes an existing coin, you have done something wrong. Spending my halves recently some places have been happy to have them and even commented that they give out so many quarters this would be less work. Gee, I wonder if that is why the half was made in the first place? (aside from the fact that to cut a reale into 8 you need to half it a few times to get there.)

when it all goes digital I hope they count beyond 2 decimal places and actually track the hundredths of a cent that taxes cause things to be.

Aluminum has worked for Putt-Putt for many decades, so I really don't see what the problem is. I mean someone drops a Putt-Putt token into a vending machine for a qyarter or under and it takes it, well it is worth that same quarter at Putt-Putt so jsut sell it to someone who wants a token for there. If they dropped it in for a penny, then you just made 24 cents profit!

The need to focus more on visually impaired bills so you don't have people ripped-off. How does a blind person tell the difference between a $100 and a $1 US bill?

Nailed it.


Use two dollar bills, which is what all of the establishments in my area have done for at least the last ten years. Break a $20 at any of these places, you will get ten $2 notes.

This is so well known in my area that when you try to spend $2 notes, you get "knowing looks" from the cashier.

So funny how the discussion can change from coins to clubs!

I do not see a problem. Stop printing one dollar notes, replace with (up to) half as many two dollar notes. At the same time, resume dollar coin production to pre-NIFC levels (number of required two dollar notes depends on how many dollar coins we can get out).

The main issue I see is with logistics. We built entire warehouses for the excess dollar coins. Unless the government starts shipping out boxes of coins instead of the notes everyone is ordering, the coins are going to sit in place until the entire stock of circulating $1 notes is unusable.

If we ramp up $2 production to meet demand, people might just start using quarters for anything between $0.25-$1.99. I can vouch from experience that most customers would be more willing to take 4 quarters instead of $1 coins. Plenty of people are afraid that the coins are somehow less useful than quarters (i.e. they will jam vending machines etc) and in the Bible belt, it's a common belief that the "Godless Dollars" were made deliberately as an experiment by the Mint to test the public's acceptance of a totalitarian, Atheist regime. I'm not even kidding about that last part--more than a few people shoved dollar coins back at me and told me to give them the money with God on it.