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She [Sacagawea]did not guide the expedition in any way at any time

Bill, you are risking hurting the lib’s feelings with this kind of truth. Be cautious, Sacagawea is twice protected. Hell hath no fury like a lib feeling umbrage…

That being said, I like your idea about the Regan Dollar. It would be a tough row to hoe though.

I think the main problem with the Sac dollar catching on is that it hadn’t been distributed well. The only time I ever came across them was as change at the local rail station’s ticket machine. Oddly even that machine was not equipped to accept them. I’d never received them in change for any other purchase or when I made a withdrawal from a bank.

In the future, the treasury department might want to think about coordinating the release of a new coin with major banks and investigating ways to do this with other retailers and cites where cash transactions are conducted.

They also might want to consider, as you point out, dedicating this coin to something other than the flavor of the month political breeze.

Owl _ Eagle
“Guns before butter.”

I think most US folks don't like the clink and weight of a dollar coin in their pockets or coin purses. I was in France recently and used the one and two Euro coins. I found you get a big pocketfull in change in a day of shopping. They feel heavy to carry around and you start fumbling with change to get rid of them with your next purchase.

If you buy stamps in the vending machines at the post office, you are more likely to get these coins. I've bought stamps there exclusively for years, and I've always received dollar coins as change. Maybe it would be different in your area, but it has worked for me.

We have a vending machine at work that takes the dollar coin, and I think that getting vending machines to accept them is a huge part of any coin's gaining popularity. The vending machine devices that accept paper dollars are never reliable, and I like the dollar coins for buying stuff at vending machines. The other place where they are popular is toll roads that charge a dollar. A paper dollar won't work except at the manned booth, and many people don't have tokens.

Maybe I've hurt the liberal's feelings, but at least they aren't as ignorant as they were. (Of course, they'll work hard to regain their ignorance.)

WFTR
Bill