This may sound petty but I want a president on my dollar coin. The dollar coin should not be a feminist manifesto.
Put Reagan on the front, the stealth bomber on the back and stop printing $1 bills. Vending machine operators will retrofit their machines, it will be the cost of doing business, after all they paid for the more expensive bill readers when they jacked the price of a Coke over a buck.
The only people this will really hurt will be the chiropractors. The won’t be seeing all of the men with backs out of place from sitting on wallets crammed with nearly useless $1 bills.
This may sound petty but I want a president on my dollar coin. The current golden dollars DO have presidents on them. The mint puts out 4 a year, and they are up to President Garfield, due out in mid November.
So, we will eventually get the Ronaldus Maximus.
The real problem with these coins is that the should have made them small and thick, like the British pound, to make them lighter and easier to distinguish in your pocket or purse. At least they are colored differently than the Anthony dollars. I don't think I ever spent an Anthony dollar as anything other than a quarter. :-(