[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I feel that discussing the failure of the Sacagawea dollar coin on this
listserv is relevant to our cause, since it represents the unwillingness
of Americans to enact an important change, especially if that change
that will run counter to their conventional ignorance.
Has anybody on this list, in the US, and not in a Wal-Mart or an IHOP
(they are, or were, running promotions on this),received one or more
Sacagawea dollar coins in change? Since the coin was launched in January
of 2000, I have never received this coin in change or from an
individual.
This is a valid thread to explore a little bit, because the same intransigent
American attitude that keeps the government from doing the one thing that
would make this coin a success -- GETTING RID OF THE $1 BILL -- is also the
attitude that stops metrication, stops the 24-hour clock, stops universal
health care, on and on and on.
The coin is getting some use. In Philadelphia, SEPTA has bill changers
($1/5/10/20) in the subway and train stations. The dollar coins are then
used to buy tokens and tickets from vending machines, that don't have the
expensive bill readers. You often get a mix of Susan B. and Sacagawea coins.
But there is some hope -- the $1 bill is the only one that has NOT been
redesigned. If it ever is, all hope for the coin is gone. Somewhere I heard
that the government is replacing $1 bills with an equal number of $1 bills,
but increasing the needed number of $1 'items' with coins only. True, anyone?
Has anyone seen a 2001 dollar coin yet?
Carleton
