Posted on 03/09/2011 1:27:21 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
They’re planning to start with lead slugs, but just until the population becomes inured to the notion; after that, the government is planning to convert to coins minted from congealed horse sh!t and glue.
Fact.
This is the beginning of “smart money”. Make conventional money too heavy to carry and deal with..then we will all go virtual...then we can all have smart money which magically shift its worth based on the powers that be.
We already have a whole bunch of dollar coins in circulation and that EVERYBODY LOVES! The Quarter. (Well, it’s probably worth a 1978 dollar!)
I have no problem with the dollar coin. The half-dollar coin that the ferry system pawns off on me - not so much.
Very worn condition - $3.45 Moderately worn - $3.85
Slightly worn - $3.91
Almost no wear - $4.10
If the coin is uncirculated look on the back to see if there's a small mint mark letter below the bow in the wreath. It may be blank or there may be a D. Numismedia lists the following approximate retail values as of 04/2010:
No mint mark (Philadelphia): $4.31 to $550.00 depending on quality "D" mint mark (Denver): $4.31 to $1260.00
‘They’re planning to start with lead slugs...’
BWWAHAHAA wait a minute slugs, shat n glue?
....fiddling with coins? Isn’t that what brought ROME to it’s knees along with open borders? Shoot, next they’ll be tryin to replace the good old American incandescant light bulb with some sort of goofy, poison filled curly-que wack job built in China, of all things.
The newer ones with their difference in color helped.
A pre 1964 quarter is now around $6.50 in melt value alone.
Dollar bills aren’t a problem; lose the penny first—it costs more than its face value anyway.
TC
You mean "Change"?
Susan B. Anthony buck reminds me of The Obammunist Government Motors Volt.
I remember the new stamp machines in every post office. It made change for up to a $20 bill. Change was in SBA bucks.
Now our P.O. doesn't even have a stamp machine. And no one uses the dollar that was the size of a quarter.
yitbos
First the article says the move would save 5.5 billion over 30 years. Then it says 184 million. Which is it?
I hate the loony and the tooney up here in Canada when I am traveling, just not convienient to carry you have a 10 and spend 5.01 and you have a pocket full of coins..
If you REALLY want to see some savings, how about THIS:
Congressmen must serve 12 years and have been re-elected at least 3 times to office before they are eligible for retirement (currently, they only need serve 6 -- yes, senators get retirement after 1 term, even if they are so pathetic they get booted after that term)
Retirement from elected office only kicks in at age 65, instead of right after leaving office.
THAT would save a lot more that a paltry $183 million/year.
Another example of big government telling its citizens — “We don’t care what you want and you will like what we give you because we know best.”
They are still in circulation, as well as the “squawbuck” and rather cheap looking coins with presidents on them.
There are vending machines that take $5 dollar bills and give change in dollar coins.
At another post office here in town a couple of weeks ago, for about a 5 minute period there were 19 customers in line and one clerk.
Whenever they would suggest this in the past, Ted Kennedy would get up and promise a fillibuster. Crane and co. the ones who manufacture the cotton paper for all the currency is based in MA.
Right after he died, one of the first things I thought was “There goes the dollar bill.”
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