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If they're meant for regular circulation, the program is being led by a buffoon. $1 coins have failed to circulate every time they've been introduced. https://

If they're meant for regular circulation, the program is being led by a buffoon. $1 coins have failed to circulate every time they've been introduced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_B._Anthony_dollar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacagawea_dollar Dollars are worth a lot less now than they were. If vending machines start charging integer numbers of dollars, maybe dollar coins will catch on.

trenchpilgrim 1y ago
All the vending machines I've used in the past 5 years were tap to pay.
rkomorn 1y ago
You remind me of the time (probably around 2002) I used a 20 to pay for some transit card/ticket somewhere and ended up with something like 15 dollar coins in change. I want to say it was a metro card in NYC. Concurrent dismay and delight.
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- owenversteeg 1y ago
  >Concurrent dismay and delight. That's exactly what I felt at the time too. To me it was always three-quarters delight and one-quarter dismay. A jangling rain of dancing gold coins is a delightful thing. Sure, now I have to go to the bank; but until that time I will walk around as a pirate, pockets full of doubloons.
  - thaumasiotes 1y ago
    The problem from a get-the-coins-into-circulation perspective is that the delight diminishes with exposure and the dismay doesn't.
    - rkomorn 1y ago
      Yeah, there's a moment when the weight of the change you're carrying becomes noticeable that elicits a "seriously?!" dismay response.
- astura 1y ago
  Around the same time I was working as a cashier when a woman came in with a Sacagawea dollar. "Woah, look at this, I just got it as change from the vending machine. I think it's Middle Eastern. Very exotic." "It's a dollar coin, US currency." "Woah! No way, how can you tell!?" "It says United States of America one dollar?" "Oh."
- xoxxala 1y ago
  USPS stamp vending machines around that time period were a great source of dollar coins. Didn’t commonly see them otherwise. Never had an issue spending them afterwards. Unlike the time I was in line at a fast food restaurant when the employee at the register was yelling at a customer about fake money. Turned out the “forgery” was a $2 bill.
mark-r 1y ago
Vending machines are already taking credit cards, the dollar coin's time to catch on is long past.

trenchpilgrim 1y ago

All the vending machines I've used in the past 5 years were tap to pay.

rkomorn 1y ago

You remind me of the time (probably around 2002) I used a 20 to pay for some transit card/ticket somewhere and ended up with something like 15 dollar coins in change. I want to say it was a metro card in NYC. Concurrent dismay and delight.

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owenversteeg 1y ago
>Concurrent dismay and delight. That's exactly what I felt at the time too. To me it was always three-quarters delight and one-quarter dismay. A jangling rain of dancing gold coins is a delightful thing. Sure, now I have to go to the bank; but until that time I will walk around as a pirate, pockets full of doubloons.
- thaumasiotes 1y ago
  The problem from a get-the-coins-into-circulation perspective is that the delight diminishes with exposure and the dismay doesn't.
  - rkomorn 1y ago
    Yeah, there's a moment when the weight of the change you're carrying becomes noticeable that elicits a "seriously?!" dismay response.
astura 1y ago
Around the same time I was working as a cashier when a woman came in with a Sacagawea dollar. "Woah, look at this, I just got it as change from the vending machine. I think it's Middle Eastern. Very exotic." "It's a dollar coin, US currency." "Woah! No way, how can you tell!?" "It says United States of America one dollar?" "Oh."
xoxxala 1y ago
USPS stamp vending machines around that time period were a great source of dollar coins. Didn’t commonly see them otherwise. Never had an issue spending them afterwards. Unlike the time I was in line at a fast food restaurant when the employee at the register was yelling at a customer about fake money. Turned out the “forgery” was a $2 bill.

mark-r 1y ago

Vending machines are already taking credit cards, the dollar coin's time to catch on is long past.