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Which would you prefer?

I prefer the coin, but both should be kept in production.
5 (20%)
I prefer the note, but both should be kept in production.
13 (52%)
We should conform and abolish the dollar note.
1 (4%)
We have a dollar coin?!
2 (8%)
I don't care.
4 (16%)

Total Members Voted: 23

Voting closed: November 15, 2004, 11:31:00 am

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« on: November 15, 2004, 11:31:00 am »
As most of you know, there are currently two forms of the U.S. dollar in general circulation.  They are as follows:

The Sacagawea "golden" dollar, first issued in 2000:


The Washington dollar note, first issued in 1928:


Most countries, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, no longer have a note for the $1 or ­£1 denomination as it has been completely replaced by a coin.  My question for my fellow NESSAholics is, which do you prefer, and what would you like to see done in the future?  (Please indicate in your reply what country you're from.)
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« Reply #1 on: November 15, 2004, 11:38:34 am »
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I'll always prefer the bills.
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« Reply #2 on: November 15, 2004, 11:47:09 am »
I have no problem with the gold dollar except this: it is not accepted currency in like vending machines or copy machines or anything.  Plus, there's not a spot for it in cash registers.  We'd need a total retooling before I'd accept that as mass currency.

I like my greenbacks.
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« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2004, 11:49:59 am »
I vote for Keep the dollar bill, ditch the coin...which seems to not be any of the choices....
Who would want to walk around with a bunch of clunky coins in their pocket!?  

I don't...I did it once when a friend of mine got change for a 20 dollar bill from a postage stamp machine...he owed me 8 bucks and he paid me back all in Sacagaweas...

That's just my 100 cents..hehe
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« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2004, 11:55:34 am »
Quote from: "VaderDawsn"
I vote for Keep the dollar bill, ditch the coin...which seems to not be any of the choices....
Who would want to walk around with a bunch of clunky coins in their pocket!?  

I don't...I did it once when a friend of mine got change for a 20 dollar bill from a postage stamp machine...he owed me 8 bucks and he paid me back all in Sacagaweas...

That's just my 100 cents..hehe


Same here.  The coin is just really annoying.  I dunno, but I am so one of those people that HATES coins.  And I've made the mistake of doing things like buying train tickets and metrocards from the machines in nyc with large bills and then recieving change back in all dollar coins.  Very annoying.
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« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2004, 12:13:54 pm »
Personally, I don't like dollar bills much because new ones stick together and old ones get raggedy and don't like to stack.  The dollar coin doesn't weigh nearly as much as it once did.  Before 1979, it was HUGE!  (Does anybody remember the Eisenhower dollar?)  Also, the dollar coin in its current size and weight has been out for 25 years, so a lot more vending machines accept them than you might realize (not just the ones that have that sticker on the front).

Am I biased?  Perhaps.  Inexorable?  Hardly!  I also prefer the metric system, but I haven't jumped full-off into it yet because I'm still surrounded by people who use the American system (I can no longer call it English since they, too, have abolished it).  Likewise, I'm not going to stop accepting the dollar bill just because I don't like it.  It's money!  I like that part of it.  But I'm either going to pass it off on my employer's till or trade it in at the bank.
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« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2004, 01:33:27 pm »
THE DOLLAR bill!
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« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2004, 02:23:14 pm »
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THE DOLLAR!



huwah?  they are both dollars
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« Reply #8 on: November 15, 2004, 04:47:36 pm »
I think gold coins are cool...they have this sort of arcane, ancient feel for me...but a stack of $1 bills is considerably lighter than the same amount in coins...so I'd say stick with the system we have right now, with both, and if people decide they want to change, it will happen without abolishing a particular type of currency.
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« Reply #9 on: November 15, 2004, 05:32:37 pm »
People actually use the gold coin? *laughs* One time at lunch I  gave the lady 2 dollars in the coin(my dad likes coins...we collect coins :S) and she looked at me and asked me if that was a chuckE cheese coin...
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« Reply #10 on: November 15, 2004, 05:50:20 pm »
I've always liked the dollar coins better.  Not sure why, but that's not important.
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« Reply #11 on: November 15, 2004, 06:04:59 pm »
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People actually use the gold coin? *laughs* One time at lunch I  gave the lady 2 dollars in the coin(my dad likes coins...we collect coins :S) and she looked at me and asked me if that was a chuckE cheese coin...


A ChuckECheese coin?  What an idiot.  Lol, at lunch... was this a school lunch lady then?
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« Reply #12 on: November 15, 2004, 07:44:15 pm »
They should make the $2 bill again  :(

meh :?

i thought they stopped making the dollar coins? i have few and have been saving them.

it would require a lot of changes to delete the $1 bill and keep the coin.

and as shown by that whole metric system thingy, USA doesnt like change very much :-\

i dont care really. :roll:
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« Reply #13 on: November 15, 2004, 07:56:51 pm »
well, there were previous dollar coins that they did stop making, which I heard was because they looked so much like quarters that people kept mistaking them.

Thats why these sacagawea dollars are golden colored, so you wont mistake them with any current coins.
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« Reply #14 on: November 16, 2004, 09:20:22 am »
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They should make the $2 bill again  :(

They did put them back into production for the 1999 series to replenish the the supply.  (Before that, they had not been produced since the 1976 series, when the reverse was redesigned for the Declaration of Independence Bicentennial (as, of course, its author is pictured on the front).)  They're still easy to find at most banks, but they don't circulate much.
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