““The People” reject the dollar coin or the merchants reject it?”
I suppose they’re one and the same, but I rarely see merchants using the dang things either. They seem like more of an inconvienience that clutter up the till - like $2.00 bills - they try and push them off as change.
The people on the thread pointing out that the government will have to pull paper dollars to get us to use dollar coins are correct. Forcing us is the only way.
I went through a period when I’d go to the bank and pick up a roll of dollar coins and a stack of $2 bills. I loved spending them. I stopped at a convenience store for a pack of cigarettes, the young clerk looked at them and told me they only accepted American money! The manager had to educate him.