[USMA:47738] Post regarding coinage

[Harry Wyeth]

Coinage is maybe a little off topic, but the miserable experience of the 
US in handling the dollar coin bit is educational:  ALL efforts to 
really introduce a dollar coin in the US have failed miserably, and the 
reason is that the mint keeps printing one dollar bills.  I like handing 
out those pretty golden coins, and when I spend them frequently people 
say "Gee, these are nice. Where can I get some?"  (Just go to the bank, 
duh.)  Point is: as long as dollar bills are printed, coins will go 
nowhere.  And it is a lesson for metrication.  I say that it has to come 
from above to really, really catch on.

HARRY WYETH