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| Design showing how the edge of the new dollar coin is supposed to look. |
Due to a glitch that still has federal officials befuddled, the U.S. Mint produced thousands of the new $1 coins without the “In God We Trust” inscription traditional on all its money.
The coins also are missing the “E Pluribus Unum” inscription, as well as a mint mark indicating whether they were produced in Philadelphia or Denver. Also, the coins are missing edge inscriptions specially made for the new dollar.
Sharp-eyed consumers who spotted the glitch and had the good fortune to put the god-less coins up for sale on the Internet fetched hundreds of dollars for each coin. The going price was about $200 on eBay late Wednesday afternoon.
I read about this yesterday.
I really hope that, this time, the dollar coin catches on. Recently spending a few weeks in the UK, I liked using their 1 and 2 pound coins, in lieu of paper. The smallest paper bill they have is is the 5 pound note.
You and my husband TT.:razz: He loves these coins! Wait till you get a clerk that tells you it’s a quarter:lol::lol:
2- Yeah that was the big problem with the Susan B coins.
The UK 1 and 2 pound coins are *very* distinctive. The 1 pound is similar in width to the size of our nickel, but about twice the thickness. The 2 pound coin is a little larger than a quarter, but it has two types of metal (center and an outer portion (think penny embedded into the enter of a quarter)). Both are VERY obvious to distinguish from the smaller denomination coins.
I haven’t gotten my hands on a new dollar coin yet but I hope they took some lessons from other countries this time.
More from the secular,liberal,atheists leftsits ACLU and jerks like MICHEAL NEWDOW i say we should tell them to GET A LIFE:mad:
“the secular,liberal,atheists leftsits ACLU”
4- Damn those secular atheists who don’t believe in an invisible man in the sky!!
The Secular atheists as a whole aren’t the problem. It’s the trouble making ones who say that since they don’t believe, noone else is allowed to either, historical tradition be damned. If they’d shut their damn mouths and leave everyone else alone, they wouldn’t be finding themselves despised by the 90% of the population who do have some form of spiritual belief.
6. I direct you to the debate over this issue that already occured on this site.
AKD, did you happen to notice that it is alreay referenced just below the coments section when replying to this post?:roll:
I doubt that the dollar coin will take off and I personally have no desire for it to. I invariably seem to end up with four or five singles in my wallet and occasionally have to carry change for the booth that I run at rennaissance festivals. The thought of carrying 50 – 100 1-2 oz coins around versus paper currency has no appeal. I’ve had people who, wanting to feel more historically accurate, paid for their entire purchase in dollar coins and it was a pain. Carrying around a pound and a half of coins instead of $25 in paper currency was ridiculous.