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"In hidden vaults across the country, the US government is building a stockpile of $1 coins. The hoard has topped $1.1bn, and the piles have grown so large the US Federal Reserve is running out of storage space... Yet the piles have continued to grow because the law requires the US Mint to issue four new presidential coins each year even if most of the previous year's coins remain in government vaults."

They use $1.00 coins in MetroCard vending machines. If you insert $100.00 and will buy only 1 ride MetroCard then the machine will give you a lot of $1.00 as change.

Do you collect the dollar coins? When I left the US the one they were trying to use was the Sacajawea Dollar coin and everybody hated it.

In Canada we have 1 dollar coins as well as 2 dollar coins. I don't think we've made dollar bills since the late '80s. There is even talk of a 5 dollar coin.

I think so.

I posted this because I had no idea three were other US dollar coins.

They've been given dollar coins in change from machines since at least the 80s. They had years and years of supply from the 2 years they made the Susan B. Anthony dollar [which is the same size and the golden ones, but silver clad and often confused with quarters].

In 1990 I had fun using my SBA's in Madison, WI buying small items ice cream from blonde teens who likely never saw the coin before and would at first be pissed when, say, I said "keep the change" to a $1.25 cone with what looked like fifty cents.






I love confusing cute blondies with my other hobby, coins.