I've been using dollar coins quite a bit lately.

[mdmc]

I pay for things with $25.oo rolls or single dollar coins. I get rolls of one dollar coins from the bank.

It makes me feel like I have more money.

Recently I got some Canadian dollar coins accidentally mixed in the rolls that I pick up from the bank. Isn't the Canadian dollar doing better then the American dollar?

Sometimes cashiers are puzzled by the coin rolls. I gladly open the roll and count out the coins for the cashier. "That's $21.75, Sir." "Here ya go. This is a $25.00 roll of dollar coins." "Uh, I only need $21.75 Sir." "Okay, here is 5, 10, 15, 20, and two more dollar coins. $22.00."
Then the cashier asks, "Do you need change?" I reply, "Yes, a quarter." She gives me a quarter.

I find it easier to save money when I use coins as cash. I spend less.

And if the dollar tanks, I can make Chinese stars or something out of them. Seems win win to me.

[oldtime dfl_er]

1. The dollar did tank

sorry to mention it :)

[mdmc]

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:hi:

[Muttocracy]

2. in a pinch the metal will always be worth more and more useful than paper! :)

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Don't know about that.

Ever try wiping yourself with a coin?

[Muttocracy]

7. ok, OTHER than in the bathroom!! :) n/t

[mdmc]

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[mdmc]

41. dollar bills are easier to spend

I save more by using coins.

[roamer65]

3. Soon it will be paper currency only.

I'd like to see a $1,000,000,000 note....lol.

All thanks to Mugabe Bush.

[CoffeeCat]

4. We'll be using one of those...

...to buy a loaf of bread!

Nothing like shoveling those loads of cash into your SUV, on your
next jaunt to Walmart to buy Chinese-made trinkets.

I LOVE the "New World Order"!

[RandiFan1290]

13. This is close enough

[mdmc]

42. i think we are heading for a coin and credit currency only

:kick:

[krispos42]

6. Me too...

all the vendingm machines at my job take them, and the change machine gives out 4 quarters and the rest in dollar coins for whatever bill you put in there.

I usually save the dollar coins for work, but sometimes after I've changed in a $20 I'll use them out.

I keep my dollar bills and put them in the change machine to get quarter for my laundry. Saves going to the bank!

[Sanctified]

8. I wish we had 5 dollar coins like they do in Japan, it would make paying for public transit

a lot easier.

[theredpen]

9. I'm looking forward to 2016

This Nixon dollar!
The Reagan dollar!

And thanks to Nixon and Reagan (mostly), they'll be worth nothing.

[mdmc]

25. nice!

I never thought of Nixon coins!:woohoo:

[goodgd_yall]

10. I love using dollar coins

They just feel more substantial. I especially like the Sacajewea coins which I like to pretend are gold coins.

[trusty elf]

21. The dullard coin is also very shrubstantial.

:7

[mdmc]

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:)

[PurityOfEssence]

11. They also don't say "In God We Trust" on them...

It's nice to have the option.

[A HERETIC I AM]

20. Yes they do.

It is just on the coin edge, not on either face.

[tchunter]

40. if you have the ones that don't have in god we trust on the side save em!

they are the result of a mistake and are worth a whole lot more than a dollar to coin collectors

[radfringe]

12. Canadian dollar doing better

it's down right now..but that's not to say it won't go up again as we struggle through these last few bush-months and who knows how long it will take to recover from the bush-years

Canada's Dollar Declines to Four-Month Low on Growth Concern
Bloomberg - 19 hours ago
One Canadian dollar buys 97.35 US cents
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=a7ZEkl6uhJ.Y&refer=canada

we have a jug where we dump change at the end of a day. Sinced this past summer - we now have two jugs - one for US coins, one for Canadian...

[Jamastiene]

14. I bought my first computer printer, back when they were almost

$300 dollars, including tax. I used coins I had saved and rolled through the years, including about $50 worth of rolled up pennies. I agree with you.

Personally, I wish they would do away with paper money altogether and just let us use coins in different denominations for everything.

Coins just give you a special feeling and make you appreciate every single thing you buy even more. If you had to save for it for years and lug $50 worth of pennies into the store to pay for it, you really appreciate whatever your buy. I don't know if that was because it was my first time ever spending my change I had saved or because of the experience of getting something because I saved them in the first place. In any case, there really IS something special about using coins instead of the paper money.

[Zorra]

15. Can you melt them down to use as bullets? They may come in

handy as a trade item or if you need to hunt rabbits to keep your family from starving.

[onethatcares]

16. have you checked out what silver coins are worth lately?

war nickels (41-45) 1.00, silver dimes 1.16. I don't know what quarters are worth cause I don't have any, silver that is. I do metal detecting and the other day I found a yellow colored $100.00 Mexican coin in a playground, dated 1988. It's worth l cent american at this time. I thought it was a gold piece though, made my heart go pititypat.

[DrDebug]

23. One silver dollar = $12.44

And that is not the collector's value but the intristic value of the silver, because it used to be defined as 412.5 grains of 90% silver. Those fiat currencies sure bring about some inflation...

[H2O Man]

17. I like them.

When I go to the bank, they know that I like rolls of the dollar coins. When I was little, the old railroaders always gave kids silver dollars. Also, if you carry $42 of these coins in a sock, you can defend yourself in a way that you can't with 42 dollar bills in the same sock.

[NNN0LHI]

18. When I was little, the old railroaders always gave kids silver dollars. So did Al Capone

My mother used to go to mob weddings in the Chicago Heights area with her parents when she was little and he would be there handing them out to her and the other kids all the time. She still has some he gave her.

Don

[H2O Man]

19. I remember one

who used to say, "Hold on to your money. You never know if it might be worth something again someday." Having a limited intellectual capacity, I have also held on to that line, and use it myself.

I used to have quite a few of the old silver dollars, but my oldest brother mistook them (among other things) for his own. He was the Al Capone of our family.

[ileus]

22. I buy 5 every week from our soda machine.

Then put them in my desk drawer at work.

[onethatcares]

24. better keep an eye on your co workers.

my wife used to do the same thing for the lottery tickest at a company. One day, the collection just up and disappeared. She made it up out of pocket and never left anything that tempted others in her desk again.

[Jed Dilligan]

26. It's a marvelous feeling in the UK

to plunk down a coin or two in exchange for 20 oz of excellent beer.

[mdmc]

27. Two bits for a pint Gov'nor

:patriot:

[mdmc]

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[SlowDownFast]

31. Quarters and dimes 1964 or earlier are 90% silver.

They're worth more than their denominations.

[aikoaiko]

32. Do not attempt to use dollar coins as tips at strip clubs...

...don't ask me how I know. ;)


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[baldguy]

33. I hate the President dollars. Ugly as hell.

I prefer the Sacajawea.



Something about having a young mother & her infant child instead of the standard old men...

[Aristus]

36. Plus, you can win a bet by asking your drinking buddies:

"Has a U.S. coin ever honored someone named Jean-Baptiste Charbonneau?"

If they say: "No, of course not", get out your Sacajawea coin and point to the baby. That's his name. Then collect your winnings. :-)

And Sacajawea? Ah, that lovely face...

[Zynx]

37. As a presidential history nut, I think this is neat.

[eppur_se_muova]

39. And the SBA dollars have a Gol-durned FEMINIST on them!

Always preferred those, just because wingnuts hate them.

[PassingFair]

35. I'm using the new "PetroDollars" Coinage:

http://blip.tv/file/520347?


This CRACKS me up EVERY TIME!!!

[eppur_se_muova]

38. Great for tolls. Won't blow away like bills.

And you can pitch them into the basket from quite a distance.

Am I just too pragmatic, or what?

Seriously, I've been carrying $1 bills loose in my pocket for some time, because they're the "new quarters" ... and now I'm doing the same with $5's ... left pocket -- fives, right -- ones.

[last_texas_dem]

43. I'd like to see the dollar coins catch on

I just like dollar coins, whether old Morgan or Peace silver dollars, Eisenhowers, Susan B. Anthonys, or Sacagawea. Unfortunately, I haven't even seen the new Presidential ones in circulation. I guess I should start asking for rolls of them at the bank, and start doing my small part to help them circulate more. I'm sure it's a losing battle until they stop printing dollar bills, though.