[USMA:33041] Dollar coins, was: the 600 mL size beverage bottle

[carletonm]

Many vending machines will accept the dollar coin already.  Some don't; one such system being the Washington Metro (rapid transit) fare machines.

 

Some vending machines or systems ONLY take coins (such as New York City Transit fareboxes on buses and some ticket vending machines on SEPTA, the Philadelphia transit system - there is a bill changer nearby that dispenses dollar coins to use in the ticket vending machines).

 

Many take both; however, providing a paper money reading device is expensive, and it's always a fiddle when you have an old bill that the reader doesn't like.

 

Cash register drawers can handle it because most have five coin slots (legacy from the half-dollar coin which is pretty much never used any more) - penny (0.01), nickel (0.05), dime (0.10), quarter (0.25, dollar (1.00).  Sometimes the sales clerk has the dollar one stuffed with coin rolls.

 

I personally like the coin because it's a lot easier to go into my pocket for a small purchase rather than to horse the wallet out and dig paper from it.  Take the coin out, drop it into the machine, no arguing from the machine, it works.  Better than using four quarters, too.  Whenever I go to Canada (where the smallest bill is 5.00) I get reminded of how much easier it is. 

 

Also, a dollar coin is worth about what a quarter was 30 years ago, and we didn't have a "quarter bill" then.

 

Carleton

 

-------------- Original message --------------

> Am I not stating the obvious by saying that, with a coutry as large and far
> reaching as the USA, all (or most) money recognition systems will have to be
> aged out or replaced before just stopping the dollar bill?
>
> I'm only asking the question - I don't know what the answer would be.
>
> >From: "Carleton MacDonald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >To: "U.S. Metric Association"
> >Subject: [USMA:33031] Re: the 600 mL size beverage bottle
> >Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 16:50:47 -0400
> >
> >The machines in our office building all take them.
> >
> >
> >
> >However, the fare machines in the subway (Washington, D.C.) don't.
> >
>! ; >
> >
> >Congress could have made life a lot easier if the author of the legislation
> >authorizing the current Golden Dollar had left out the sentence that said
> >that the dollar bill SHALL continue to be produced. Keeping the dollar
> >bill
> >costs the USA about $400,000,000 a year, but remember, as with metrication,
> >Congress listens to the whiners. "You changed something, why did you
> >change
> >it, we don't like change, we're going to remember this at the election, waa
> >waa waa ."
> >
> >
> >
> >Carleton
> >
> >
> >
> > _____
> >
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
> >Of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:45
> >To: U.S. Metric Association
> >Subject: [USMA:3301! 6] Re: the 600 mL size beverage bottle
> >
> ! >
> >
> >In a message dated 2005-05-31 12:13:45 Eastern Standard Time,
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> >Now if we can get the vending machine people to install machines that take
> >dollar coins...
> >
> >In my area I've been surprised at the number of vending machines that do
> >accept dollar coins. It seems that most of the newer machine do, though I
> >don't think many people know that they do. Just recently I saw someone
> >give
> >someone a dollar coin for a coke asking them if they had a paper dollar so
> >the machine will take it. The machine in question takes dollar coins.
> >It's
> >much easier to put a dollar coin in the machine and know it will take it
> >than wonder if your dollar note is perfect enough for the machine to accept
> >it.
> >
>