James Bond 007 wrote:
Sorry about spelling error. People are "lazy", not "laze".

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"Rick Brandt" wrote in message
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The reason dollar coins are not popular is because COINS are not
popular. We put up with the others because we have to and the
majority of us carry them precisely as long as it takes to dump
them in a big container at the house.

Dollar coins (of any shape and size) will catch on 100% the moment
they stop printing paper dollars.

Rick, that is not entirely true. Dollar coins would be popular if
vending machines took them. They don't. Vending machines have been
modified to take dollar bills, not dollar coins. If the machines
would have been modified to take the coins, the dollar coins would
likely have become more popular. Maybe not mainstream, but more
popular. At least useful enough for people to carry around to use in
vending machines at work or in public places like malls, airports, or
whatever.

We are only a few years away from vending machines that take plastic or let you
pay with a cell phone. These are already used in Europe and Japan. That will
spell the death of coins to a large degree (as well as the paper dollar).