Posted on 12/26/2007 11:48:41 PM PST by BGHater
Must be talking about gold colored dollars.
They’re talking about the “gold” Sacajawea dollars that were around for a while and have since been replaced by the “gold” Presidential Dollar.
I think they may have the dollar coin figured out this time.
“he’d been saving since 1994” — $26,000+ in change — just exactly how much must he have SPENT, to get $2000/yr back in change?!
“Brant’s price reflects his Chrysler employee discount and rebates, plus taxes, he explained.”
Brant is probably a UAW worker.
I think they may have the dollar coin figured out this time.Yeah, we've never been able to figure out how to make dollar coins before.
What, no pictures?
Gold colored dollar coins, The article says “gold dollars”, like they are made of gold.
Cool about the truck, but here we give our loose change to the poor (decent charities).
He was saving $5.62 a day.
No, no. I mean they’ve figured out how to get people to distinguish between the dollar coins and other coins by touch alone.
The SBA dollar failed because it pretty much looked and felt like a quarter, right down to the milled edge.
The Sacajawea dollar has a smooth edge like a nickel and could be mistaken for one by touch.
The new Presidential/Liberty dollars have a uniquely engraved edge that feels different to the touch from any other coin.
It’s the media, you expect them to write that? :P
Well, he says he pays cash for everything. That would tend to leave him with more change than the average person.
I’m from that area and I remember the last time he bought a truck with quarters.
I save my change and roll it about every 6 mos or so. I also save 1 dollar bills. You’d be surprised how fast it adds up. When I need emergency money I alway have a few hundred laying around just from that.
My local deli also knows that whenever he runs out of change and cant get to the bank (3 day weekends, etc.) he just calls me up and places an order :}.
Otherwise, the money goes into bank accounts for my grandkids. I just bought them those ATMS for kids for Christmas and they love them. I sent each one a roll of each type of coin plus some singles.
My oldest grandson is now going to get his own real bank account with atm card and when his atm at home gets full Daddy will take him to deposit it. (reminder to self, make sure they use a NO FEE ATM bank) Those fees kill ya!
“a couple tellers at The Farmers Bank notified him that they had plenty of rolled, gold dollars available, if he wanted to buy them. He did. “
Looks like this is more of an attention getting device. Why would he BUY change.
I recently cashed in the change we'd been saving for @ 5 yrs. It came to $2,011.14.(The bank has a machine in the lobby that'll count it for ya and then give you the bills.)
We're not in the same class as Chrysler Guy, but, I guess, the Mrs. & I are doing our part to keep the economy rolling.
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