Comments on: Why the New Dollar Coin Will NEVER Work. http://virtualobscurity.com/2007/02/why-the-new-dollar-coin-will-never-work/ "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Bonaparte Fri, 05 Dec 2008 10:33:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Zrcalo http://virtualobscurity.com/2007/02/why-the-new-dollar-coin-will-never-work/#comment-64 Zrcalo Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:28:54 +0000 http://www.virtualobscurity.com/?p=113#comment-64 honestly, another problem with these coins; do you still get sacagawea coins? noooo... want to know why? frienzied collectors (mostly amatuers) quickly scoop them up and hoard them. it's like it's own currency. "here, I'll trade you three sacagawea's for your british pound" then people like that hoard them and think they will be worth alot someday... I'll say, probably the most "rarest" coin will be a normal dated coin that they made few of and people didnt hoard them like starving crazed squirrels. honestly, another problem with these coins;

do you still get sacagawea coins? noooo… want to know why? frienzied collectors (mostly amatuers) quickly scoop them up and hoard them. it’s like it’s own currency.

“here, I’ll trade you three sacagawea’s for your british pound”

then people like that hoard them and think they will be worth alot someday… I’ll say, probably the most “rarest” coin will be a normal dated coin that they made few of and people didnt hoard them like starving crazed squirrels.

]]> By: ForeclosureFish http://virtualobscurity.com/2007/02/why-the-new-dollar-coin-will-never-work/#comment-63 ForeclosureFish Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:31:38 +0000 http://www.virtualobscurity.com/?p=113#comment-63 Very true. We don't need a new version of something that wasn't popular to begin with; especially since the changes are nothing but cosmetic. I remember paying $3.00 for parking to one of those automatic machines. I fed it a $20.00 bill, and got 17 Sacagawea dollars back. Where did they end up? Nope, not in my wallet. Nope, not in my pocket. Most of them ended up inbetween the seat of my car and the divider in front, never to be seen again, sucked up by the vaccum cleaner on some cleaning expedition or other. I could deal with losing a few pennies, nickels, dimes or quarters, but it was quite frustrating to see dollars small enough to fall in spaces that I wasn't going to be able to get my hand into to retrieve them. But maybe that's a good thing -- the very clumsiness of the coins encourages their own destruction. Very true. We don’t need a new version of something that wasn’t popular to begin with; especially since the changes are nothing but cosmetic.

I remember paying $3.00 for parking to one of those automatic machines. I fed it a $20.00 bill, and got 17 Sacagawea dollars back. Where did they end up? Nope, not in my wallet. Nope, not in my pocket.

Most of them ended up inbetween the seat of my car and the divider in front, never to be seen again, sucked up by the vaccum cleaner on some cleaning expedition or other. I could deal with losing a few pennies, nickels, dimes or quarters, but it was quite frustrating to see dollars small enough to fall in spaces that I wasn’t going to be able to get my hand into to retrieve them.

But maybe that’s a good thing — the very clumsiness of the coins encourages their own destruction.

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