[gaijin]

This is an effort to push the public harder into debit cards, thereby forcing an electronic record of EVERY purchase.

They have rich data showing the public hates such coins.

The move makes sense once you accept that treachery is a core DC value.

[dalereed]

“This is an effort to push the public harder into debit cards, thereby forcing an electronic record of EVERY purchase”

I won’t use a debit card under any circumstance, I use credit cards but will never accept using a debit card!

[opentalk]

Interesting, India is pursuing cashless society, involves biometrics.

[SaraJohnson]

I guess it is easier to carry a bag full of coins than a wheel barrow full of dollars.

[El Gato]

We used to have a dollar coin. It was quite popular. Of course it was made mostly of silver, not mystery metal over copper. I have a couple of them.

I think a coin that even just looked like the old silver dollar would be accepted. It was kind of big though, bigger than a half dollar.. oh wait we don't have those any more either. But those silly quarter sized dollar coins were ridiculous.

We even had $20 gold coin at one time.