We had to quit producing the penny because it is too expensive to make coins. Somehow, the government thinks it is a good idea to design and develop a $1 coin with Trump's likeness. Yes, because we love to carry around pockets of heavy change, especially dollar coins that are similar to quarters. Let's ask Sakajawea about that.
I'm not even going to get into the ego-maniacal need to put your own likeness on coinage. Calvin Cooledge was a jerk for doing it too.
Sorry, this is just another waste of time and tax money and the whole idea needs to be trashed pronto.
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I couldn't agree more!
WE lose more on the production of the nickel and the dime than we do on the penny.
But they thought the penny would be accepted, so they started there.
Ultimately they want a cashless society, this is the first step.
The dollar coin is just to trip Trump's ego, It;ll never last.
I think many of the ideas put forth from Trump administration (ie. Gulf of America - Annexing Greenland FOR REAL - etc.) is simply to wind up the Left and drive them batshit crazy just for the hell of it. Keeping us guessing what DJT really wants to get done is the real game.
It sounds like a commemorative coin that won't be used as spending cash. There are examples from past history of living people being featured on commemorative US coins. Calvin Coolidge with George Washington on a commemorative half dollar for the 150th anniversary of the Founding, for instance. The Trump coins were proposed by the US Commission for Fine Arts. *shrug*
FWIW they should simply have gone back to steel pennies. Or aluminum.
FWIW the dollar coin was simply wrong place wrong time. Though I can think of many times when I've been at a vending machine with a recalcitrant bill acceptor where I'd have been damned happy to have a pocket full of dollar coins...
There is a commemorative solid gold coin and the $1 coin both proposed
I have no issue with the big gold one
Joe
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