Hi Bruce,

Like Colin said, many had similar fears when we went to 1$ coin.

Virtually all of the fears (and a whole lot of them sounded plausible, as well as funny in many cases) turned out to be unwarranted. We are now quite used, for instance, to carrying $5 and $10 bills instead of lots of $1s and $2s (though you US folk *do* have a problem with paper $2 which we never had).

I also got quite a bonus after the change - I had always shoved my change into a jar on arriving home, and with $1s in there I found over $800 where I might have normally come up with $75 or so!

I'm betting that your new 1$ coin will work out fine.

Cheers,

Jim N

>>How would you like to carry around $20 worth of dollar coins all day? I wouldn't.
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>That's why I said below about the public revolting :) You may have people listing-to-side from the coins, or carrying around little purses like in medieval times < s >
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>>>Eventually, they want to obsolete $1 bills completely, to force people to use the coins...if the public doesn't revolt, anyway :)