Should The Mint Stop Making Dollar Bills And Switch To Dollar Coins?

@jbuck Call me Captain Obvious, but this isn't exactly an unbiased forum for such a poll result.

I had eight one dollar bills in my wallet this morning.
Why would anybody want to carry around eight Ike or SBA dollar coins all day in their pocket?

"What's in your wallet ?"

I usually have a stack of dollar coins and halves on my desk. When I go places, I grab a bunch and put them in the car. I take them out as I need them throughout the day. Saves carrying them all at once and it isn't exactly rocket science either.

You have money with real value in your pocket it's called the USD. Governments give money their value which is backed by it's ability and it's military power.

If the government fell apart PM's would hold no value. Medicine, guns, ammo, food, water, fire starters, ect would be what had the value. Alcohol and tobacco would actually have more value than silver or gold in a lawless environment.

Silver and gold aren't going to be circulation coins again, changing that was a great decision

You haven't considered the size the coins would be. At full value a half dollar would be the size of the old 3 cent silver pieces. And that's for a half dollar. Imagine what the quarters and dimes would be like. And as I said that would be if they have their full value or silver. Since they wouldn't want them hoarded or melted so say they made them with half their intrinsic value now they are even smaller. You could alloy them with copper or copper nickel to bring them back up to size, and you now have a .016 fine "silver" coin.

I was not trying to make a political statement and would like to say that I do support coinage. About the sizing reply I could extend the conversation a bit if it isn't off topic. I would possibly see a one ounce silver coin being a hundred dollars down to 1/10 ounce being 10 dollars and maybe copper for denominations below that. Gold could maybe be $4000 for a one ounce coin. By keeping the value high versus the intrinsic value you would have an equilibrium (maybe wrong word here) between USD and intrinsic value. Call it money with some underlying security. This is only an opinion and just something that I have put only a little thought into.

with basebal21

at $4000 they could counterfit them using real gold and still make a killing.

I appreciate everyone's feedback to my comment as I was thinking out loud and got some good counterpoints. I don't know what would be best, but I think that I might research this topic more.