Sunnunu who gave us Souter?
Why hasn’t Tim Geithner signed any money? Every other Sec of Treasury has. Come on Timmay, put your name out there!
Buchanan was not the worst president, but he probably is in the top 20. I think that distinctive title should go to Wilson. But Obama, before his term is over, is going to wrest the title away, I think.
And, if we stopped printing money to waste on bailouts, entitlement programs, and failed kenysian economics we'd save BILIONS of DOLLARS in costs.
I didn’t even know there were $1 coins until I got four of them in change from a machine in a parking garage! And I had no idea there were $10 gold coins until I read this article.
They guy at a toll booth the other day couldn’t even tell me if the correct change machines on some lanes would accept the $1 coin.
Coins are bad from the environment. They use 10 times the fuel to transport.
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The best way to improve circulation of dollar coins is to stop printing dollar bills.
(1) Stop producing the $1 bill and gradually withdraw remaining bills from circulation
(2) Recall ALL $1 coins - ALL OF THEM - and create a single new $1 coin that's as heavy and distinctive as the British pound that features the likeness of one of the Founders, preferably John Hancock
(3) Abolish the penny and nickel, and make the dime the same size as the nickel.
1922 was the last time a decent dollar coin was minted. And possibly the worst...tough choice but the SBA is near the top clunker.
The bill also suggested that a program wherein Presidents are featured on a succession of $1 coins, and First Spouses commemorated on gold $10 coins, could help correct a state of affairs where “many people cannot name all of the Presidents, and fewer can name the spouses...”
Yes, it is very important to name the first spouses. It is only fair.
Idiocy rules the day.
Lincoln is the one that should be censured for starting the War of Northern Aggression.
Buchanan's mantra was "I acknowledge no master but the law." He believed that secession was illegal but he also believed that starting a war to stop secession was also illegal, and, IMO, immoral, because a union forced at gunpoint is no union at all.
Yeah, everyone's going to spend a few hundred dollars per coin to get a half ounce of gold just to learn the names of the first ladies.
Since they got rid of the Lincoln memorial on the reverse of the penny and replaced it with an imitation of a state highway marker, now is the time to use the back of the penny to commemorate all of the counties. If they did 2 a week it wouldn't take that many years. It's the logical next step after doing the states on the back of the quarter.
As I’ve said before, we cannot get rid of the $1 bill. What are we going to tip strippers with?
There have been 44 US presidents, more or less.
The US mint should have printed all of them first, then produced sets in typical coin cardboard containers displaying all 44, for $60, providing $16 for shipping and handling. Or $15, if they included one coin that was reversed, to show the common reverse the coins share.
Then, as an added bonus, they could sell $50 rolls of coins of a particular president, and for the real collectors, a *silver* set of presidential $20 coins (silver is about $18.50/ounce right now), for about $900.
A silver $20 coin would have to be much more artistic, however, but with a classical look. The avant garde look they’ve been trying on coins recently is pretty lame.
IMHO the reason no one wants $1 coins is the bulk. I can carry 20 $1 bills in my pocket and never notice the difference.
If I’ve got 20 $1 coins in my pocket, I’m leaning sideways. Although if I put them in my other pocket, it would balance out my carry piece.
Maybe that’s the solution. Let everyone carry and they can use the right number of coins to balance out the load.