Posted on 02/11/2007 3:01:28 AM PST by BenLurkin
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two recent efforts to promote wide usage of a dollar coin proved unsuccessful. But maybe Susan B. Anthony and Sacagawea should not take public rejection personally. It's not easy overcoming people's indifference to dollar coins, even those honoring such historic figures.
An AP-Ipsos poll found that three-fourths of people surveyed oppose replacing the dollar bill, featuring George Washington, with a dollar coin. People are split evenly on the idea of having both a dollar bill and a dollar coin.
A new version of the coin, paying tribute to American presidents, goes into general circulation Thursday. Even though doing away with the bill could save hundreds of millions of dollars each year in printing costs, there is no plan to scrap the bill in favor of the more durable coin.
"I really don't see any use for it," Larry Ashbaugh, a retiree from Bristolville, Ohio, said of the dollar coin. "We tried it before. It didn't fly."
A quarter-century ago, the dollar coin showed feminist Susan B. Anthony on the front; then one in 2000 featuring Sacagawea, the Shoshone Indian who helped guide the Lewis and Clark expedition.
The latest dollar coin will bear Washington's image, followed later this year by those of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. A different president will appear on the golden dollar coins every three months.
People have strong feelings about their money, even the penny, which occasionally is threatened with elimination.
When people were asked whether the penny should be eliminated, 71 percent said no, according to the poll of 1,000 adults conducted Nov. 28-30 that had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Some fear that getting rid of the penny will cause product prices to be rounded up, perhaps increasing inflation.
Washington looks pissed in that engraving.
I refuse to use or accept the new politically correct coin for this reason -- I'll ask the cashier instead for a dollar bill.
I guess replacing "One Dollar" with "$1" makes is easier for those illegals who don't read English to use? What a joke -- it looks like a casino token.
I love dollar coins. They're very convenient, like at vending machines and at the bar.
They won't release it in my pocket!
I refused to accept the last two for change and will do the same for this one.
The Pound worked fine in Britain, it was the 2p that was a pain.
I'm not sure they have to oblige you.
I think the gold coloring is a visual clue to try to overcome the horrible mistake they made with the SBA being hardly different in size from a quarter.
Because *we* don't sign the bureaucrats paychecks.
Some fear that getting rid of the penny will cause product prices to be rounded up, perhaps increasing inflation.
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SaaaayyyyyyyyWhaaaaaaattttttt?
No thanks. I like my coinage BOLD, not Politically Correct and hidden out of the way!
For this action, Williams was awarded the Medal of Honor (shown above being presented by President Lyndon Johnson), which he added to his previous decorations: a Navy Cross, two Silver Stars, three Bronze Stars, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, and three Purple Hearts (among others). DDG-95, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, was christened the John Elliot Williams on 28 June 2003.
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Let's name a coin after this brave man who recently had a destroyer named after him. This man lived as John Kerry only wanted the world to think he lived.
You mean the public hated this?
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What do you expect? Look at the size of it!!! You can't even put it in your pocket!!! ;-)
I use a money clip; can peal off what ever I need quickly, and can have 20 dollar bills in my pocket. I would not like to have 20 one dollar coins in my pocket.
I won't use this coin, and will reject it if given to me in change.
Yep, and you're $20,000 automobile will now cost you $25,000.
They do it stupidly is the only reason it hasn't worked. The dollar coins are ALWAYS the size of a quarter, and the biggest objection is that people accidentally spend them as quarters. Make it bigger than a quarter and distinctive, and it will work. Of course, you'd also have to stop printing the dollar bill.
For the most part, we are a cashless society. Something like 95% of all money in the US doesn't exist, except as numbers in a computer. Think about it. How much of the last car or house you bought involved any actual cash? How much of your paycheck do you actually see in cash?
Paper money has a way of coming out of the pocket when pulling out keys or loose change. I quit putting paper money in my pockets long ago. I can’t afford to throw away money.
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