Comments on: New U.S. Mint $1 Coin Campaign Doomed to Fail

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 01 Aug 2016 21:47:23 +0000

I’ll also mention that German soldiers in WWII had “Gott Mit Uns”, or “God With Us”, on their belt buckles, and they still lost the war. Therefore, the word “God” does not seem to offer much protection.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 29 Jul 2016 19:34:26 +0000

Eventually inflation will make the $1 coins seem more reasonable, when a $1 coin buys what a quarter used to buy. Merchants don’t accept credit cards for tiny purchases. I wish that our coins did not have God on them. “In God We Trust” makes Americans sound not very bright, intellectually.

By: tony

tony — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:42:14 +0000

Once again the US Mints fails!
They think it’s more important to put the faces of historic people than
actually making a coin people can see within 1/2sec that it’s a dollar coin.

Here is for a success:
1: Make it thin a light.
2: Put a big 1 on it instead of a face of some dead person.
3: Don’t use same color as a quarter, maybe gold with a silver or blue ‘1’ ( if you can merge two metals)

Think Vegas chips (but less gaudy)

By: JayKay

JayKay — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 03:03:39 +0000

Almost every other major country in the world has eliminated its dollar bill or equivalent, and civilization hasn’t fallen. I’ve spent a lot of time in the EU and never had to fight with bill acceptors on vending machines or transit vehicles – just pop in a €1 or €2 coin. (I was going to ask if their citizens are more adaptable than ours, but I think I just answered my own question …)

As far as the purported removal of In God We Trust, it AMAZES me how a combination of the far right and rumor-whisperers can keep this myth alive. And anyway, people forget that paper currency didn’t have the motto until the late 1950s and early 1960s. It was only added as a way to differentiate the U.S. from the “godless Communists” of that era. We DID manage to defeat the Nazis without having the motto everywhere, didn’t we?

By: Derek

Derek — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:57:22 +0000

No, it isn’t true. http://www.snopes.com/politics/religion/dollarcoin.asp

By: Kathy

Kathy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:59:56 +0000

Is it true that the “In God We Trust” has been removed? If so, I as a christian, will have no part of this new coin, whether is is “green”, convenient or anything else.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 13:54:47 +0000

The solution is to stop making dollar bills and start making two dollar coins. With $1 and $2 coins, you only have to carry two coins at most. Carrying two coins is easier than carrying 4 bills.

Why don’t we do away with pennies? They are worth far less than the old inflation-adjusted half cent was.

By: Mrs. Z

Mrs. Z — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 22:58:18 +0000

I live in the US but am originally from Canada where we not only have a $1 coin but also a $2 coin. They are a lot easier to use, especially for those people who use parking meters, public laundry facilities, car washes, etc. Instead of using handfuls of quarters you only need one or two dollar coins. For example when I did laundry in Canada I used 2 dollar coins for washing. Here I use 6 quarters for washing.

By: Mr. M

Mr. M — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 21:50:09 +0000

These coins are great to use. Even just to give a little excitement to a cashier or server.

Since you can’t really get anything anymore for a dollar, but maybe a $1.25 or $1.50 in a vending machine, the $1 coin only makes sense for use.

Bring back the $2 bill so you have a low commodity bill and the $1 coin is used in the vending machines and parking meters. Sure, maybe more people will use the $2 bill, but the government would produce less of them when compared to the $1 bill and I think as a result the $1 coins would be utilized more.

By: Koichi Ito

Koichi Ito — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:40:02 +0000

Most people prefer One Dollar Bill for transaction of money. And think that One Dollar Coin is for collector. Since One Dollar Coins are popular with coin collector, but not for use of purchasing goods and service!