[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >"Our appointed masters" at the mint are the ones who WANT us to use the "new >currency" because it saves them money. It's the stores and the people that >don't use or want them.
Just as a reference point, NZ switched from paper $1 and $2 to coins vaguely similar to the US dollar coin a few years ago without any fuss. If the USG simply told people the notes were being withdrawn in 12 months (or whatver), the change should work OK. Having used both, I *much* prefer the coins. Being in the US and having to handle wads of tattered, grubby $1 notes, many of which wouldn't be accepted by vending machines because of their condition or weren't the sort of thing you'd want to touch just before you ate the food you'd bought with them, really showed me what I was missing with $1 coins. Peter.
