Reaction To The Dollar

I still haven't seen one in hand. So can't really comment. I checked at the bank again and they said lot of people have been asking for them but they're not ordering.

I just picked up my first roll from my bank. I like the coin and am sure I will like the series.

Muckeye, confusion is our lifeblood. We are in the process of trying to make everyone happy and in the process making everyone miserable. The mint is desperate to get the $1 coin into circulation, but don't have the backbone to remove the bill. It's astonishing that Australia did it 23 years ago and we can't decide if we ever will. What's neat is to stand in a grocery store line and watch a little old lady painfully counting out pennies while there's plenty laying all over the floor. I'm exaggerating a little, but you get the point.

Our urban centers aside, the fabric of the U.S. is still quite conservative--possibly the most conservative first-world nation. We abhor unnecessary change. And "everyone else is doing it" is not a strong selling point.

Remember the NASA spacecraft that crashed into Mars a few years back because JPL used metric and Houston(or somewhere) used standard measurements? Crashed a several million dollar project. Good ole USA, we mess up sometimes but we eventually get it right. Sorry, off topic a little.

What Bogie said.

Mine are from the bank. And yeah, the Federal Reserve ain't exactly white-glovin' when it comes to rolls... but there's WAY more slop on these compared to the 2000 Sacs.

As an American living in Canada (currently in the States for a bit), where $1 and $2 coins are the main thang, I now find $1 bills annoying as hell (but still love the $2!).

So kudos to Gary for the circulation bump!

And kudos to me for being new here :p

I FINALLY was able to find a bank which had a roll of GW dollars. I went through three banks (all were grocery store or small branch banks) over the past week or so. The teller at the first bank had no idea what I was talking about - she was a trophy teller (not blonde but drop dead gorgeous nevertheless ), but had no clue about the new dollar coins, knew nothing about the President series. The second had no plans to obtain any of the new dollars (can banks be that selective?). The third bank actually had no GW dollars, but pointed me to the Safeway grocery store service desk ten feet away and advised me that they had just supplied the store with a shipment. So, I picked up a roll, had a nice numismatically oriented conversation with the store manager.

They sure are bright (the coins; the manager was also bright). I don't remember the Sacs being this bright when first issued. I haven't yet cracked the roll to look for errors, figure out how many have the edges in opposite directions, nor looked for high quality strikes; I'm not really into the series nor moderns in general. I got them to play with convenience store clerks' minds (or lack thereof), baffle the local Bingo players, and otherwise make a nuisance of myself.

On a more serious note, they are almost exactly the same size as a quarter. After the initial curiosity wears off and people start putting them into circulation by actually spending them, there are going to be a LOT of complaints. With hundreds of millions struck and the collector market saturated, they're either gonna be a pain in the neck for cashiers or, I suspect there's gonna be a lot of them in sacks joining the Sacs also in sacks in some Treasury vault.

Fred