At 10:12 AM -0500 2/5/01, George Matyjewicz wrote: ... >The US mint introduced the dollar coin with much fan fare - >support women, support your country, yada, yada, yada. What they >failed to realize is that cash registers have a certain number of >slots for coins and dollars - the penny, nickel, dime, quarter >and half dollar (and $1, $5, $10, $20 and other for bills). So, >while the silver dollar sounded good, merchants (and banks) >didn't like them and consumers didn't like the extra weight in >their pockets. > >A lesson for everybody. Ideas sound good, but you better think >them out completely. > >George Depends on what *variety* of Sacagawea dollar coin, too. ;^) http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1212297809 Check out that e-gold discount for winning bids! Anyway, I think the golden dollar coin may have been partially a result of lobbying from vending machine interests, and they get a bit of use in Miami (& other cities I'm sure) as subway token substitutes, so the coin is not a *complete* failure. JMR (Really hoping to find some time for chess this evening!) --- You are currently subscribed to e-gold-list as: archive@jab.org To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
