Question About 1.00 Coins From US Mint

I never even thought to use a rewards card :)

Something to consider. If the mint reports it as a cash advance to the credit card company most if not all companies start charging interest on that amount from the day of the transaction. You don't get that grace period to your first billing date like you do for regular credit card purchases. So even if you pay off the full amount each month your will still be paying interest on that money.

You just have to hit the flea markets, coin shows, camera shows, etc. Many, many people do carry large quantities of small bills at those places. Dealers at flea markets always try to have large bundles of $1 bills for change. At almost any type of show where items are purchased basically with cash, $1 bills are king. As a customer you just can't haggle a person from $9 to $7 and then pull out a $10 bill.
As to those baby sized dollars, I never see them around me being used ever. No one I know wants them.

I haggle from 9 to 7 and 5 to 3 ALL the time and then hand a 20 to them to bust up. It's a flea market. I'm there to bargain for the best price. I never pull the "oh well I only have 7 dollars" and then pull out the 20 but I have no problem at all haggling down and then having them bust a bigger bill.

The US still hasn't switched to a $1 coin, and prices have gone up more than Canada.

It's amazing the lame excuses people can come up with, rather than just say "I don't care how much sense it makes, I don't want to change my ways".

A few favorites:

• There's no room for $2 bills in the register (that had over 200 ones taking up two slots).
• There's no room for $2 bills in the register (at a Dairy Queen using a slot for $20).
• People don't like (fill in the blank). I've handed out prolly $100,000 in Ikes, Kennedys , and mini-bucks, with fewer than a dozen requests for something else. Typical reaction: "oh, neat!"

The funny thing is, I read that Disney actually helped get at least the 2009 Native American dollars into circulation by having their souvenir shops, food vendors, and the like hand them out in change at their theme parks (or maybe it was just Disney World, it's been a while since I read this article).

I've found that people order from the Direct Ship, get points, airline miles, or cash back on their credit card and then deposit the coins back into the bank. At one bank I dump my coins in, when this happens, they open all the rolls and put them in a plastic bag to send back to the Feds.

As much as it is against the program, it was a boon for me. When my 2001 Sacagawea dollars failed to arrive after a month, I got a refund from the Mint (and they were no longer offering the '01 Sacs), I went to a bank that I knew had a lot of dollar coin rolls and I bought 10 rolls of Washington dollars for me to spend.

It's been over a year since I conducted an "experiment" to use dollar coins instead of paper ones, along with twos and the occasional half. I found that the coins were much more convenient (especially after discovering their acceptance in vending machines), and I don't want to go back to paper ones. I usually spend one roll of dollars a week and rarely have I come across any complaints from cashiers, most are indifferent to them. I've never had any refusals, either.

Also, on a tangent here, but the dollar coins are almost the same size as the $10 gold eagles minted 1933 and earlier. Imagine if someone finds one of those in a roll of dollars...(Pigs will fly before that happens, though).