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And get rid of the dollar bill, too.

Back in the 70s you could buy a meal with the spare change in your pocket, and you could buy a Coke by dropping a coin in a machine. Now you've got to jam a bunch of dollar bills into a flaky bill reader. It's ridiculous, and it only gets more ridiculous with each passing day as inflation takes its toll on the value of a dollar.

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Agreed. And jamming 50 dimes into a washing machine is equally ridiculous.

In the UK we have a 2GBP coin, which is roughly $5. Imagine how useful it'd be to have $1 $2 and $5 coins for vending machines etc.

2GBP is 3.09USD currently.

The government has pushed $1 coins on several occasions before but they have never been able to get it to catch on.

> The government has pushed $1 coins on several occasions before but they have never been able to get it to catch on.

They would catch on real quick if you got rid of the dollar bill.

How would "ballers" show how much money they have then?

You still get them as change from Post Office vending machines, but that's about the only place that uses them. Stores seem confused if you try to use them, so if I get a dollar coin from the Post Office's machines, I usually use them in parking meters, which (at least around here) take them just fine.

I try to use them... whether the new Presidential ones or otherwise. People get angry and I say, you'll take your dollar coins and like them!

Force people. Get rid of $1 bills which are useless, and produce $1 coins.

"[Americans] are a people resistant to change." --MidnightRambler

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