Should the US scrap the dollar bill and go to a dollar coin

But Birmingham is run by democrats, unlike the rest of the state.

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All the vending machines I've tried around here use dollar coins.

 

I also can't imagine carrying around $60 in dollar bills in my pocket.

 

Hmm, I've see Kennedy half dollars in use. I have also seen (and used) the dollar coins. There's a newer series out--the Presidential dollar coins, although they were stopped in 2012.

https://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/

At work, we have a change machine that will make change from $1,$5,$10 and $20 bills. It gives the change in the form of $1 coins--primarily presidential, but some Susan B Anthony and Sacagwea. I'd much rather get 5 dollar coins from the change machine than 20 quarters when I get change for a $5 bill.

 

Just so you know....this action of fixing an exchange rate of GOLD...was done as an EMERGENCY MANEUVER IN 1934 by President Roosevelt due to the on coming Great Depression.

Such a FIXING OF GOLD PRICES could never ever be done again and fixing of Gold Prices is NOT PART OF A GOLD STANDARD....it was part of an EMERGENCY PROGRAM known as Gold Reserve Act of 1934....and was done because of the absolute destruction of the American Economy.

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