Giving Up the One Dollar Bill

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“Change For The Dollar,” in the Chicago Tribune fascinated me. As a country, we could save $522 MILLION a year, if we gave up our one dollar bill and switched to the one dollar coin. The US Treasury has tried to accomplish that with the Susan B. Anthony dollar, and the Sacagawea dollar, without much success. They are currently producing a series of one dollar coins with the faces of the presidents.
For those who are circulating an e-mail saying that “In God We Trust” has been dropped from this coin, please take a closer look. The dollar coin has a smooth edge (unlike the quarter, which has perpendicular ridges along the edge), and “In God We Trust” is cut into the edge of the coin. The coin is slightly larger than a quarter, and is a pale gold/bronze color.
Go read what Tom Hundley had to say at the Trib. It’s an interesting story.

2 thoughts on “Giving Up the One Dollar Bill”

  1. A one dollar coin would make my purse (or pocket when I’m on WS’s bike) and a waitress’s pockets very heavy!
    And before being accused of being cheap, the waitress at the diner gets at least $5 when we have breakfast – more if there are more than 2 of us.

  2. Yeah, Bogie, that’s one of the reasons that people don’t like them. The Italians resisted the equivalent coin because a pocket full of coins would ruin the line of their clothes!

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