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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Oh, I just thought of another reason to dump dollar bills. Coins can be distinguished by feel which makes them more accessible to the vision impaired.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Right you are Captain! That's been in the news a lot lately, evidently we're one of the few countries that's not taken steps to remedy that. A very good point...
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Bedrock of the Community
 United States
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Oooh, nice point. Seems like an easy and logical addition to the ADA. Would definitely force something.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
12834 Posts |
Well, not necessarily "easy".
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Pillar of the Community
United States
2205 Posts |
Well, I did my part today. I went to the bank and got all of the 18 dollar coins the teller had in her drawer (mostly Pres plus a couple SBAs). So far I've put half of them into circulation WHERE THEY BELONG!
(Sorta like throwing a fish back into the water--where it belongs--and have it swim happily away.)
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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It'll be a movement! Order some dollars direct-ship from the mint. You pay face and no shipping and get nice BU rolls of dollar coins. You save the government money because they don't have to warehouse them. Spend them at all your cash transactions. Whenever you get dollar bills in change, take those back to the bank as part of the cash you use while roll hunting.
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Bedrock of the Community
United States
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You save the government money because they don't have to warehouse them. Except the business where you spend them send them back to the bank and the bank sends them back to the Fed where they get warehoused. The Fed doesn't even order dollar coins from the mint except for the boxes requested by banks for each new President, yet their stockpile keeps increasing. |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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But if we're constantly making use of them, it means there are more in circulation, which is fewer sitting in warehouses. Sure, businesses take them back to the bank, which sends them back to the Fed, but if we're always getting more and using them while that happens.
Plus, if there are enough people spending them, business will get used to having them in their registers, and people will get used to seeing them, and maybe even accepting them in change. And the lady behind you in line might be curious about them, or complain about them, and that's an opportunity to explain why they're better, and why they save money, and are more accessible, etc.
Sure, it'll take more than the 8 people reading this thread, and it'll probably take the death of the dollar bill, but I'm impatient so I'll do my small part.
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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Can dollar bills carry infectious diseases?
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Pillar of the Community
United States
4132 Posts |
Absolutely, dollar bills are filthy germ carriers. There was a Mythbusters episode about it. They tested a number of household objects and surfaces to see which were more germ infested than a toilet seat. Paper money came in at #2, only behind the filthy kitchen sponge.
Copper and silver alloy coins are antimicrobial and will self-disinfect within hours. There are studies going on right now about whether to replace stainless steel surfaces (which has no antimicrobial properties) with copper alloys which quickly kill nasty bugs like E. coli, influenza and MRSA.
Yet another reason to switch!
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I do my part and order $250 direct ship each quarter, and spend them in small, under $5.00 transactions. No one has had a problem with them, and I spent my Abe Lincoln allotment in under a week, there were cashiers that traded me bills for coins because they like Abe. Now just waiting for the Grant coins to be made available.
I always thought these would have been great $20 coins with a half oz. of real metal, like silver.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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The current dollars are actually within half a millimeter in diameter to a $10 gold eagle, which had nearly half an ounce of gold in it.
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Rest in Peace
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Perhaps we could have a public redemption program where, for every dollar bill you turn in, you receive two dollar coins in return? I'd be going door-to-door buying paper dollars. |
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Just imagining pennies the size of Ikes- OY! I misread pennies...  |
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