Getting the Public to Use Half Dollars and Dollars

I don't see any particular
reason to use halves, as it would be much easier to obtain sufficient
quarters; but neither is there a really logical reason to not use them
either. Except for the supply question. On the plus side, you'd get
people talking about your place of business. Perhaps if the change due
were 50c even, it might be suitable to use halves. I'm not sure if
your business could get enough to last long.

Is there a supply question? Federal Reserve banks have ample supplies of
half dollars, don't they? Couldn't the bank that my theatre uses order as
many boxes as needed?

About putting MLK on a coin or note: I don't mean to sound racist or anything,
but why do more for the black people? Here in Michigan, they took over Detroit,
and destroyed it and are starting to take over other areas as well. They are
the ones driving the expensive new cars, owning the new houses, collecting
welfare checks in ten or more different names. Yet they claim to still be so
mistreated. I can't believe some of them had the nerve to come on TV and say
"there aren't enough black people in hockey" when the Detroit Red Wings won the
Stanley Cup for the first time in over 40 years, yet every other sport
(basketball, football and baseball) are mostly black.

But know this, I have known good black people who were good friends, and there
are bad and good in ALL races. I just don't want anything going to the bad
people's heads.

As stupid as you people claim it is, why not put Balto on a coin or note after
dogs have served mankind for so long, yet shelters are gassing thousands of
good dogs, sentencing them to death when their only crime was, their stupid
human owners bred their parents without thinking of where to place them when
they were weaned from their parents? Now THAT is unfair. The problem is, most
people are stupid and seem to think humans are either the only speices on the
planet, or the only "important" speices on the planet. Dogs serve police,
firemen, military,etc. AND GET KILLED in the line of duty as well. Its not just
"people". And I don't see all of these poor coutries putting overpopulated
"people" in gas chambers, because it is sick, but why should it be looked at
any different for innocent dogs "and cats"?

Of course, many people are going to read this and think I'm out of my mind, but
as I stated above, its "human" ignorance.

One other thing I would like to say is I have NOTHING against MLK. I don't
think he wanted some of thing things to happen, that did. Such as black freedom
going to their heads. I think he wanted all men to be equal.

Tom

"DyzeeGF3" wrote in message
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"Bob Peterson" wrote in message
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forget the 50 cent idea. stick to a single coin for change. much less
hassle to have just one coin for change.



Can you explain why?


why stock quarters and halves when you can just stock quarters. you don't
have to deal with a coin that's not as easy to come by, and that most
customers really do not want to take in change.

a few years ago, I worked a show where for some reason we decided to charge
$1.50 entrance (or maybe it was $2.50). Anyway we got rolls of halves to
use as change. Many people did not want them. I guess because they are
just cumbersome and can't be used in vending machines, or they just don't
like. No one will complain if you give them change back in quarters.

if the goal is to simplify your life, just do it, and don't add
complications that solve no problem.

What you are suggesting is a face lift. That will not work. What is needed
is smaller coins that are more convenient than the current sizes. It will
be expensive, with all the vending machines that have to be adjusted, but it
will be worth it in the long run.

Tony

"Ami ." wrote in message
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What are your ideas on getting the public to widely use half dollar and
dollar coins in everyday transactions?

I think the following would work:

1. End production of Kennedy halves in 2004. The last year should have a
special date, 1964-2004. Starting in 2005, the half dollar would have a
portrait of Martin Luther King on the obverse. The words "United States
of America" would be in big letters above the portrait. The word
"Liberty" would be in smaller letters positioned on the obverse. On the
reverse, there would be the rendering of the Liberty Bell that was on
the reverse of the Franklin halves. Above the Liberty Bell would be the
words "Let Freedom Ring."

2. Starting in 2005, remove the portrait of Sacagawea from the dollar
coin. Replace it with a portrait of John F. Kennedy. The design of the
Kennedy dollar coin would have a new portrait. The reverse would remain
the same as the current Kennedy half.

We would then have MLK Halves and Kennedy Golden Dollars.

"Steve Okonski" wrote in message
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Ami . wrote:

What are your ideas on getting the public to widely use half dollar and
dollar coins in everyday transactions?

The designs don't matter, the utility does.

Or, make use of Gresham's Law and give the other denominations some
real value by adding silver and copper, and suddenly people will
gladly spend the halves and dollar coins.

Do you really think that putting 50 cents' worth of silver will make the
coin circulate? Paper money has no intrinsic value, and it is no longer
backed by gold or silver, so this is an old-fashioned idea that whose time
has passed. It is the size that matters!

Tony

"Bruce Remick" wrote in message
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Ami . wrote:

The designs don't matter, the utility does.

I think the design on a coin does matter. Take a look at the Susan B.
Anthony dollar. People complained that its an "ugly" coin as well as
rejected it because it was too easily mistaken for a quarter.

Also, people complain that the Sacagawea dollar design appears to have
been based on a Disney cartoon.


What's unatractive about Disney cartoons? What about the Kennedy half?
I can't recall, people ever calling it ugly. See one lately? I
don't think the quarter and dime are particularly attractive, but I
blindly use them because they're dimes and quarters. We could put an
ivory cameo Mona Lisa on the dollar, people would comment pro and con
for a few months, and then they'd go back to ignoring it.

Bruce


After reading all the input on this thread this evening, I sense that many
are
numismatic slanted, as if coinage is minted for collectors. Ninety
percent of the people do not care about numismatics, they just want a
useful a coin.

Tony

I do like the Kennedy dollar idea.

Yay!! Another vote for a Kennedy dollar

Remind you of the dollar coin rush in 2000?

There was a dollar coin rush in 2000! People were making special trips
to Wal-Mart just to get golden dollars in change. The news media had a
field day.

Instead if the mint stamped "$1" on an otherwise blank planchet, and
sold them for 50 cents, and people would be banging down the doors to
get them.

There's a Dire Straits song in there somewhere...I think it goes
something like this:

"Money for nothing...and the chicks are free!!"

John Q. public doesn't look at the designs on his coins when he
receives or spends them. Who or what is depicted on a particular coin
has no effect on whether the public will find that coin comfortable to
use.

If the design doesn't matter, why is the state of Virginia kicking up
such a fuss over the design of nickels?