In for a penny, in for a pound. Guess we’re left with pounds.
This will piss off some people, I’d be fine if we get rid of nickels and dimes also. We still need quarters, it’s how we get our cart from Aldi.
Nickels for sure, as their cost to produce vs. value is worse than pennies.
We are considering rounding up/down to full dollars like the IRS just to be ahead of the curve.
I only use cash to tip people, and in that case it is in full dollars.
Won’t miss any of the coins. Relic of the past.
I almost never use cash anymore, unless it’s a tip or I’m drinking with my buddies sitting at a bar. Even my kids weed guy in college took Venmo and Apple Pay.
We are in a suburban/rural area, so going cashless isn’t in our near future. It may be part of my last projects before my final retirement.
Remember the Susan B Anthony dollar coin?
Was it a legal dispensary? Or was it mislabeled as tobacco or alcohol or plants? I never partook.
Both were epic failures because they were too close to the size of a quarter
They were epic failures? By what metric(s)?
I didn’t know a coin could be considered a failure. And why would their size have anything to do with this?
Nobody used them, they really didn’t do much good sitting in bank vaults.
Lol…nope, just a guy selling weed.
A lot of people and places mistook them for quarters. And believe it or not, there was a time in this country where things cost so little that you could pay with change. And when you think you are handing a quarter to a clerk but handed them one of these…if the clerk didn’t notice, you paid 75 cents too much.
Also…at least for the Susan B…vending machines weren’t as advanced as they are today these would go in the coin slot just fine. They just didn’t recognized it as a dollar so no change was made.
I was there; I believe it.
I worked in fast food when the Sacagawea dollar came out, and I don’t remember this ever happening.
I’m not saying it didn’t happen; I’m just saying it’s pretty hard to believe. They were a different color after all. Not that many ppl are color blind.
Gradually they stopped showing up in people’s payments, until they were gone.
The Susan B’s were similar in color. I think the thought with the other one was to make it a different color, but then there was the weight thing…why carry around dollar coins when you had a bill in your wallet
People mistook them for quarters and used them as such.
And if I remember right (not 100% sure) one of them was so close in size it worked as a quarter in vending machines
Lol that is terrible. Although, perhaps by design? Whoever made that mistake paid 4x what they needed to.