Because completely replacing dollar bills with coins would save $500 million a year.

and quickly worn pockets

no - keep the bills

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If Americans are collecting the coins, doesn't that mean that they're just getting them and holding onto them, rather than driving them through the economy? Isn't that exactly the opposite of what they want?

And yeah, I get the Sacajaweas sometimes at the Post Office and dutifully spend them, but whoever gets them probably just turns them right in at the bank.

"Sacajawea" is a fine euphemism for dollar, though.

They made great bus tokens, too, until Metro yonked up their fares.

I don't know that I like a presidential series. Do we really want to honor Warren Harding, James Knox Polk, Buchanan and the Booshes?

Beaides, who wants to be the asshole holding up the line acting like they're going to win some prize for finding four pennies in the bottom of their purse/wallet/pocket to make exact change. Fuck, I wish meters took cards.

Besides, American paper bills are all the same colour and size but we don't hear too many complaints about telling them apart.

I actually find the two dollar coin handy. Fewer things really cost just a dollar, and I never bother to carry dimes or nickels (forget pennies).