Receiving $1 Coins In Change?

I get them all the time from the store down the road from my house. That is the only place I get back in change other than the post office. I have 2 rolls and a partial stack on my desk that I have received in change from there over the last month or so that will go to the bank as soon as I complete the 3rd roll.

I get the gold colour $1 coins every day in change

We have been using $1 coins in Aus since 1984.
They have proved to be very popular in commerce and as a collector coin.
I have about 130 different ali/bronze $1 coins circulation,proof and NCLT so far and have just scratched the surface of getting them all.
This is just different designs,dates and mint marks and doesn't include errors or varieties.

We have also had a $2 coin since 1988, The very first commemorative one of these was minted 2012.

I cannot understand why any country would want to retain such a low value note

I bet you could count out $100 in 1 and 2 dollar coins faster than you could count out $100 in crumpled soiled notes

But would they if their only other choice was a tattered rag of a dollar bill, or a handful of quarters? (An example of what their choices wld be about 9 months after the note was discontinued. They would probably much rather have the dollar coin.)



It wasn't at first There was a lot of complaining about it and the people preferred the note. Then the note was discontinued, and people fell in love with the coin.

Since I use Dollar coins for Light Rail, parking meters and car washes, I make it a point to ask cashiers if they have any. I get them fairly frequently, and they are always happy to sell them to me.

The only place where I've ever been handed $1 coins in change without my asking for them was the Denver Mint Gift Shop,
but since Biden cracked the whip, they don't have BU business strike Dollar coins in their cash drawers anymore...


I frequently see people struggling to get self-checkout machines to accept their worn $1 notes.

After I joined CCF I saw a lot of people on here who were very pro-dollar coins. They were/are the only people I personally have interacted with (so far) who have this opinion. I am not sure if our hobby might make people a little more inclined this way.

Being honest, the psychological concept of a dollar just being "pocket change" and making a dollar be the new "quarter" has always struck me as a way to "legitimately" raise prices on everything and I am one who likes keeping more of my own money.

BUT...

I decided to start asking around with locals as to their feelings about the dollar coins. The overwhelming response has not been one of never having seen one - they have known what they are and do not like them. I ask why and continually am told the same thing that I got when I was a kid and wondered why people rarely ever saw/used half dollars. I keep getting told people don't like pieces of change in their pockets to "lug" around. The people keep saying, "who would want to have metal in their pocket when paper weighs almost nothing?"

Again, I think the very concept of the dollar being pocket change also is a part of the stigma.

Another thing I see on this forum is how a lot of people say that pennies and nickels are never used anymore. This may be very true in big cities - and plastic and smart phones may be the norm for paying. But there are still an awful lot of us out here who live in areas where we use small change on a daily basis. You might be surprised, but there are many, many non-metropolis people who do not care enough about technology to even know you can pay for things using a cell phone. Cash still trades hands, instead of plastic, for daily, minor (Starbucks-like) purchases.

So although this topic keeps coming up of how wonderful it would be to only have dollar coins, and that the nickel and penny are useless, I think the people saying this may very well be correct for larger cities. But although plastic is used in my area, there is still an awful lot of small change used every day, and people still have a concept that a dollar should not be relegated to being pocket change.

Maybe my posting these concepts might help answer some of the questions of those who keep wondering why not everyone in the US agrees with their point of view of people being stupid for not wanting dollar coins and still wanting to keep pennies and nickels.

I don't think I have ever gotten dollar coins back in change from a cashier unless I asked for them. Many times when I have spent them, I tell the cashier to give them out as change to the next person. I doubt they do it though.

I have interesting discussions with some members of my bowling league about using dollar coins as opposed to dollar bills. A couple of them are very adamant about the dollar coins being "funny money". I say they are "hard money" instead of the crappy disgusting one dollar bills. It doesn't matter. Their argument is where can you spend them and weighing down your pockets because paper is very light. To a point they are right. But I am not giving up.

I get them on occasion at the register at my part-time job, and I send them right back out with the next couple of customers, one dollar per customer at a time. I usually get some sort of scowl look and I tell them to "get used to them, the paper dollar bill is going away". Which usually brings on a discussion about the life expectancy of the coin versus the dollar...and holds up the line of customers who are trying to see and hear what's going on.

Same thing with two-dollar bills when we get them.

Which reminds me to go by the Credit Union and pick up some rolls of "funny money".