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Read somewhere that $1 notes account for almost 50% of paper money in the US. To me it also makes sense to get rid of them (replace them with $1 coins).
by decadentcactus 16y ago
Read somewhere that $1 notes account for almost 50% of paper money in the US. To me it also makes sense to get rid of them (replace them with $1 coins).
- astine 16y agoThey keep trying that, but no one uses them.
- billpg 16y agoPeople will if they stop printing 1 dollar notes.
- ars 16y agoI won't want to - I'll carry bills, but I won't carry coins.
- hugh3 16y agoExactly. In every other country where coins have replaced notes, they've just said "OK, on such-and-such a date we're replacing the note with the coin, everybody come in and swap your notes for coins!" and a few months later you don't see the notes any more. I don't know why the US Mint has got the idea that they need to keep printing 'em both. Of course there are two other factors that don't help: a) Previous dollar coin designs have been ugly and filled with misguided feminism (I still don't know and don't care who Susan B Anthony was, and I only know Sacagawea from The Simpsons), and b) Previous dollar coin designs have been damn near indistinguishable from quarters by feel. Make 'em bigger or thicker or give 'em flattened edges or a hole in the middle or something! Preferably all of the above so you can look at it and say "Wow, that sure looks like a dollar's worth!"
- protomyth 16y agoput a hole in them also - makes for a nicer way to carry them.
- metageek 16y agoThe current dollar coins, with presidents on them, solve half of (a)--no feminism, but really ugly pictures. Instead of being profiles, they're portraits, with really deep eye sockets.
- tripa 16y agoI haven't lived in (or been to, for that matter) the US for twenty years, but still... I remembered the dollar coin as George Washington, silvery, larger than all others. And quite uncommon, especially compared to the dollar bill. Still really not something you'd confuse with quarters. Has it changed that much? And what are those feminism attempts you seem to refer to?
- delackner 16y agoNot holding my breath, but: The Japanese solution works very very well. the 100 yen coin (their system's $1 equivalent) is smaller than a US quarter and much lighter than a british pound coin. The 500 yen coin is about as big as a Susan B. Dollar coin, yet is still quite light. I often have as much as 2000 yen in coins in my pocket at a time, and it doesn't feel particularly heavy. Paying a transaction under 1000 yen is generally quick and pleasant. Contrast with US $1 dollar bills, that are for some reason almost always falling apart, crumpled rags, and with the Quarter being the largest coin in common circulation, paying for something under $10 inevitably means fishing out a mix of disintegrating bills and small change.
- harisenbon 16y agoI know what you mean. I cleaned out my sofa and found 5000 yen worth of 100 and 500 yen coins. My friend had a 500 yen coin bank, which when full held over 50,000. It was not a large coin bank.