Replace Dollar Bill - Use Dollar Coin

Received this morning as change

Dollar bills are the nastiest, dirtiest most useless items of money that I carry with me.  If you've only got a $5 bill and you buy something for $.50, you then end up getting a few coins and four $1 bills.  The bit of change can just be dropped in your pocket with the rest of the change; then, you have to take out your wallet and attempt to fit the four dollar bills in there.

Some of the bills may be brand new and others a month old and look like they're ready for retirement, like the one above that I received after a purchase this morning.  In either case you gotta make 'em fit; then, you have to do your best to make sense of 'em when you go to pay for another purchase.  Dollar Bills are a PITA (Pain In The Ass).

 

 Coins from my pocket 

See that little gold colored dollar coin to the right of the quarter in the image above.  Would be much nicer to get 4 of those small, handy coins than to get 4 of those nasty dollar bills.  Then when you go to spend 'em, just pull coins out of your pocket and the dollars stand out for you to select and use.  Only slightly larger than a quarter and worth 4 times as much.  And you can stick 'em in vending machines too.

Initial versions of this dollar coin drew negative comments due to the "In God We Trust" lettering being on the edge of the coin instead of the face.  Newer ones have it on the face as you can see in the image (click for high resolution).

Dollar coins last seemingly forever, while a dollar bill is worn out in a few months.  Just because the public complains so much, the US Government dropped the ball once again.  Other countries have eliminated smaller bills, the United States needs to do the same and switch to the dollar coin.

JD, here in the Big Town of Savage just counting my dollar coins

PS - Most older women I know think of the old really large, heavy Silver Dollars when they think of dollar coins and don't want all that weight in their purse.  A misconception that would be corrected very quickly if they were put in circulation.