From: le@lekno.ws   
      
   J.D. Baldwin  wrote:   
   >   
   > In the previous article, Diner99  wrote:   
   >> The last effort at introducing $1 coins, during the Clinton   
   >> administration, failed because even though they spent a billion   
   >> dollars minting and promoting the coins, they couldn't convince   
   >> vending machine companies to redesign their machines to take the new   
   >> coins; thus the coins never got into mass circulation.   
   >   
   > U.S. dollar coins are stupid -- they look very close to quarters,   
   > particularly in low light or for aged coins where the color is not   
   > perfect.  If they can't or won't redesign them from scratch, they   
   > should just leave well enough alone.   
      
   The small stupid ones ARE a redesign-from-scratch;   
   I much prefer the impressive old size.   
      
   > And while I'm at it:  leave the penny alone.  I do not want the nickel   
   > to become the new penny, as happened in Canada when they abolished   
   > pennies.  Yeah, a 1-cent coin costs more than a cent to manufacture.   
   > So what?   
      
   The mint loses more money on 5-cent than 1-cent coins.   
   Either discontinue both or neither.   
      
   (I hoard copper cents and spend zinc ones (post-1982);   
   I never spend nickles (I prefer to spell the coin's name   
   differently from the metal's)).   
      
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