Gold Dollar Coins...When did this happen?

[RobMoney$]

Just got three of these things today as change.
I was completely unaware they were they out there or even being minted.

PICS (http://coins.about.com/od/uscoins/ig/Presidents-Dollar-Coin-Program/Jefferson-Presidential-Dollar.htm)

[funk63]

last week i got those when i got my change back for a parking ticket. i thought they were sultans castle tokens or sumthing at first lol
their definitely wasnt much hype before the joint dropped.

[RobMoney$]

They made Madison look like Larry Fine LOLZ.

[QueenAdrock]

Yeah I saw one last year. Apparently they're trying to phase them in slowly and phase out dollar bills slowly and eventually just have dollar coins.

I just remembered I put something like this up in sure shots last year!
http://www.beastieboys.com/bbs/showthread.php?t=81180

[ericlee]

there's dates of 2002 and such printed on them but, I only started seeing them 2 years ago.

MTA ticket machines give those as change back rather than dollars.

[monkey]

the lirr had been giving them out before 1999, on their annoying little machines. other than that... ive hardly seen them. they only seemed to exist for the convenience of the lirr.

[abcdefz]

The Sacagewea (sp?) was around for a while but still didn't catch on.

On the whole redesign front, they have to figure out what to do with the bills so that blind people can differentiate them now.

[AceFace]

what are they made of?

[abcdefz]

The gold coins?

Probably nickel. Heck, I think even pennies are just copper-plated now.

[ampm]

The dollar coins they reissued in 2000 don't work in machines. The newer coins from last year do work. Go figure.

[YoungRemy]

so it was the sacagawea coin that failed to get off the ground in 2000, those were the ones in the vending machines...

so they reissued the presidential dollar last year, and they wont stop until all the presidents have a coin minted after them...


Government=FAIL

[abcdefz]

The coins worked just fine in machines which were fitted for them -- largely, government machines. Most vendors just hugely resisted the coin.

Funny enough, though, one of our vending machines here accepts 'em just fine. I was kind of surprised.

If the government would just stop printing dollar bills, people would just learn to accept them, like the loonie. When I got currency in the
States before I went to Vancouver, it included one dollar bills and I thought nothing of it. But you get up there in circulation, and nobody
uses the bills -- just the loonie.

[The Notorious LOL]

yeah they tried this same shit with the Susan B Anthony dollar in the 1970s. Never caught on....odds are this wont either.

[abcdefz]

Funny enough, the Kennedy half dollar and the Eisenhower dollar seemed to do just fine.

[YoungRemy]

In December 2005, Congress decided to create a new series of $1 coins which will honor the former U.S. presidents. In 2007, Presidential coins of four different designs were produced. Another four designs will be produced each year, honoring the Presidents in order of service. (Grover Cleveland will be on two coins, since he served two non-consecutive terms.) The Presidential $1 Coin Act is intended to create renewed interest in the coin like that seen during the 50 State Quarters program.[12] At least one third of all dollar coins produced are still Sacagawea coins, with the remaining coins making up the four presidential coins annually. Under federal law (31 U.S.C. § 5112), no coins may be issued featuring a living president, or a president who died less than two years earlier. The program will run until at least 2016 with the coin commemorating Ronald Reagan, but may continue longer depending on the longevity of the currently living former presidents, and the longevity of the current president or presidents yet to be elected.

[mikizee]

We got 1 dollar coins in 1984, and 2 dollar coins in 1988. You cant get anything under 5 bucks in a note these days.

We also have plastic notes, not paper. We were the first country in the world to do it! Which is good, because if you leave cash in your pockets when you put your clothes thru the wash its no biggie.

[YoungRemy]

its no biggie if you wash US paper $ either

[mikizee]

Well I'll just shut my big fat mouth then. :p

[abcdefz]

Plastic money...




You mean, like, credit cards? :D

[RobMoney$]

Plastic money?

What next, flying cars and treadmills for dogs?

[taquitos]

man i wash so much cash i'd be out on the street if it turned into mush like paper does

[Documad]

I used to get them a lot in my change when I bought stamps from a vending machine. Then they changed the vending machines to credit card only so I no longer get the gold dollar coins. And those coins were good because you can use them at parking meters.

[scotty]

Aussie money (http://http://www.aussie-info.com/tourist/money2.php)

This is Australian currency, the notes are a polymer of some sort thats hard to kill or copy.

[mikizee]

Scotty's link didn't work.

here it is again. (http://www.aussie-info.com/tourist/money2.php)

[Bob]

is your money made from oil??????

[taquitos]

"The $20 note features the Reverend John Flynn (1880-1951), founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service"

whoa, flying doctors

[mikizee]

Yeah flying doctors. Because Australia is such a large country, and townships in the centre are few and far between and incredibly remote, there is a flying doctor service which visit towns and emergency in light aircraft.

Sort of like an ambulance plane.

But we definitely need them. In the whole of the state of Queensland, an area into which you could comfortably fit most of Western Europe, just three paved roads venture into the state's vast and arid interior, and only one provides an outlet to the two-thirds of Australia that lies to the west. From Camooweal in the north to Barringun in the south, you could, if you were completely out of your mind, walk 1400 miles of Queensland without once crossing a paved surface. Travel any distance into the interior and you are, with amazing swiftness, in an empty country.

[hitmonlee]

our money is pretty. more examples of pretty money please!!

stupid $5 note. stupid queen. i always turn it to the other side so i don't have to see her face.

edit: woah, i was looking for a pic of a $1 note and found this... i remember this! $10 was so much to me then
http://www.rba.gov.au/currencynotes/history.html
1988 was a pretty kickass year, i wish we could turn 200 every year!
anyway, oldschool monies
http://www.rba.gov.au/Museum/Displays/1960_1988_rba_and_reform_of_the_currency/australias_first_decimal_currency_notes.html

[mikizee]

edit - never mind. I was quoting and referencing the exact same page.

And I remember that 10 dollar note! Memories.

[HEIRESS]

our money is gay. just really really gay.

its used to be awesome because it had pictures of birds on all the bills. our coins are still pretty cool. except the loonies and toonies get really heavy.

I wish it still looked like this
http://www.atsnotes.com/gallery/canada-99d.JPG

now we just have this crap:
http://www.pokeraddict.net.au/userimages/user3148_1168313835.jpg
great, kids playing pond hockey. good idea guys.

[roosta]

Our money has subliminal pictures of cocks and balls on them! (http://www.metatech.org/Images/Euro.gif)

[na§tee]

whoa, flying doctors
flying doctors, lol. oh man, i loved that tv show back in the day. sigh.

i use an australian five dollah note as a bookmark: FACT. from now on i will keep the queen face down if you like, heh.

scottish money is pretty dull and standard (http://mirror-uk-rb1.gallery.hd.org/_exhibits/money/UK-coins-and-Scottish-and-English-banknotes-1-ANON.jpg).

in scotland we get £1 notes (http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1220/1459236098_4eef77d99c.jpg?v=0) as well as the £1 coins. lots of places in england refuse the notes even though it's stirling because they're quite rare.

[scotty]

They're changing the $5 from the queen and parliament house to sir henry parkes and catherine spence, which is fine - less references to the queen is good by me.

But they're changing the 20cent platypus to don bradman! Its a fucking outrage. Whats fucking next steve waugh and peter brock on the coat of arms instead of the roo and emu? I want my platypus to stay!

[hitmonlee]

now we just have this crap:
http://www.pokeraddict.net.au/userimages/user3148_1168313835.jpg
great, kids playing pond hockey. good idea guys.

HAHAHA oh god.

scott: yeah i know they changed it, but deal with a lot of cash and rarely ever get one of the new $5 notes.
put shane warne on our money. he's a great guy! :rolleyes: