It would be as rebellious and exciting as the state quarters and let’s admit it, who didn’t sit around waiting for their state and then deciding that Georgia still got the best one? mint WILL make dollar coins with the faces of each president, in succession. Yet states that in 2005, a congressional mandate passed that said the U.S. So millions of coins, sitting around unloved in massive vaults in Texas. Anthony coin, which was also scorned and of course, the apparently not-so-beloved-but-we-can’t-talk-about-it-cause-it’s-not-PC Sacagewa coin. The mint just kept pressing their luck and struck (that’s official coin lanuguage) the Susan B. They were supposed to be really neat but they weren’t. But hope was renewed in 1971 with the advent of the Eisenhower dollar coins. After 1935, the price of silver was too high and the silver dollar phased out.
First manufactured in 1794, this unlikeable coin was made of silver. … Coins across America.Īt one can read the history of the dollar coin. The detested coins sit in plastic bags, so many hateful coins, that if they were laid flat, they could stretch from Chicago to L.A. 40 percent of the coins are returned to the mint. It’s hard not to be taken aback immediately, to defend yourself against the assumptions that headline raises.“I have no problem with the $1 coin” you think to yourself, “In fact, I LOVE one dollar coins.” Yeah well, you’re fooling yourself and America too and you’re making the $1 coin look like even more of an asshole.Īccording to the Wall Street Journal, there are over 1.4 billion dollar coins sitting in soccer field size vaults all over the world. A decision has been made for you countrymen, and according to the front page of ,“The US stops minting unloved $1 coin.”
The court of public opinion has spoken again. From eggs to Boy George to Nutella, Americans are clear in their opinions. When it chooses to shower its unmitigated scorn on something, it’s over for that thing. “Americans are passionate about our money, but we hate change.” Read an excerpt of her thoughts below or listen above: Anthony chat it up with our first 20 presidents in vaults the size of Madison Square Garden, one fact remains,” says comedian and famed tour guide Margaret Hicks. “Nobody wants them,” Vice President Joe Biden said with typical candor.īut “s our politicians duke it out on the fields of the U.S. government would stop minting $1 coins in an effort to save money. Americans have been quietly mourning a surprising death for months, ever since news hit that the U.S.