Ended - Project $100k- Circulating Dollar And Half Dollar Coins

$4.50 on stamps (which the cashier immediately tried to sell for $5 to her coworkers haha)
$1 SBA on the bus

$88,925.50

Three in halves, no comments. I bet if the gov't reintroduced halves they'd get use now.

$88 920.50

Jbuck, they're incredibly useful and would be even moreso if we did in fact end the penny (easily a quarter of the sales I ring up end in .99, .01, .49, or .51--maybe even more). I'd like to see the Kennedy come to an end. I asked my mom for her input, and she said she thinks it'd be a fitting coin to memorialize Reagan. I'm personally against more dead Presidents, but I guess I could see that. (I think I'd be personally in favour of a return to Liberty, but that's just me.)

Maybe we should replace Kennedy with George Orwell. Big Brother is watching you. /oblique political comment

On a different topic, I wasn't around for those halves to get spent yesterday, but I'd bet the guy who put them in our drawer was the same one as last week. I'll see if I can catch him and get him to join our project!

Ran out of golden dollar coins, on Tuesday, spent $3 in vending machines through then.

$3 spent today, after I restocked, on a birthday card for my grandpa. Cashier remarked "don't see these too often" then asked her co-worker what she should do with them.

$6 total spent, $88 917.50 to go

I am both amused and bemused by this thread.! Could somebody please explain to an Aussie the whole reason behind this venture.! I am guessing there is some dislike for half dollars and dollar coins in your monetary system.? Perhaps if everyone would like to send me a few of each I could help everyone feel a bit better.! Just a thought.!! I will continue to follow with interest.!

We're just too lazy to carry around all that money in our pockets. It's a lot easier to carry $10 in one dollar bills than it is in dollar or half dollar coins. I wish people would realize how much money could be saved in production if we got rid of the dollar bill and the cent.

We won't get rid of the cent because Lincoln is on and too many people would be up in arms over that. And we won't get rid of the dollar bill for the aforementioned reasons.

A preface to our non-American friends in this thread:

Some people would say that what you're saying is "anti-American." These are probably the same silly people who insisted on using the phrases "Freedom braid," "Freedom kisses," and "Freedom fries" after France refused to help invade Iraq (I do have to wonder what they did with French-cut green beans and French croissants). I've actually run across more customers who go "really? We could save that much? Huh" than "I don't care how much we could save, it's INCONVENIENT!" Our problem is that Americans (on the whole) are too lazy to get up a letter-writing campaign in favour of this move, and have so little common sense that "WAAAAAAAAAAAAH BUT TWENTY COINS IS TOO MANY" makes more sense to them than "Can I trade in ten of these for a couple of larger bills?" (My apologies to the Americans who may read this and mistakenly think I mean all Americans, period. This is a majority statement, not a blanket one.)


SO MUCH to report today!

First: four half-dollars have been taken permanently out of circulation by myself and a customer. Hopefully this isn't too hard to understand; you see, the dates involved were 1952, 1956, 1966, and 1968. Unfortunately, I dumped all four on the counter for her to look at thinking that they were all Kennedys, and only registered the flowing hair and small date in time for her to go "OH!! I'd like the two with Ben Franklin on them!" The ones I got are in VERY pretty shape, though, so I won't complain . . . much.

I did also send out an SBA that will be re-spent. This brings our total down to $88 916.50!