The US' Terrible Mistake of Selling $1 Coins for $1 

A guy tried to spend a $2 bill. The clerk called a cop As both of them were mellinials neither had ever seen, let alone spent a $2 bill. They were too busy arresting him for passing counterfeit currency too search "is a $2 bill real?" Online. He was released from custody when the Sgt. laughed, then told the young fool to let him go.

@@corey_the_bird3086 Dumb phone adds them automatically then I have to go redact them. Thanks for reminding me I neglected to edit them out.

Can you believe kids now days call the po po on people for trying to pay with 2$bills in fast food dives that's Hilarious.

😆😆😆😆😅

@@corey_the_bird3086 Everyone's phone has a different ghost in the machine.

So true even at the pharmacy or the grocery store.

Use a $2 dollar bill and the store clerk might call the Secret Service on you thinking you are trying to use counterfeit money.

@@poodlescone9700 Even $2 bills are more popularvthan thr $1 coins believe it or not. The only way for you the get the pesky coina are at the Subway fare vending machines that can give you a maximum change of $6 in coins with a $14 purchase.

Came here to say the same thing. It’s quite hard to spot a dollar bill here. The coins are everywhere.

I was just going to comment the same thing, here is the other way around

I laughed. Hahahahahahaha. Ok that sounded funnier in my head ok.

Banks unironically do this a lot

That is the answer, smart people give. Dumbasses say: I am going to buy a bunch of shit that will not hold or gain value. Like a job, house, college education, vocational training, stock, bonds, or ETFs. You are indeed a wise man.

@@jamesedwards3923 ?

@@jamesedwards3923 why are you buying a job

I got two rolls from my bank and intend to circulate them. I know some coin collector is furious that I put two fresh mint rolled coins into circulation but it's what the coin gods intended. I recommend you get some more, any bank can still order them, they're a fun way to express yourself while buying things.

Did you swim in them a la a certain famous duck?

Probably would have made more in interest if you kept it in the bank

@@andrej7941 It was 0.01% savings rates back then

@@JoshGrigonis yeah, but the stock market was 16%

Brazil did the same (but only with $1, that is the hightest value coin)

Yeah, that was the problem here - the government didn't remove bills. I was in Germany when they introduced the 5 DM coin.. they removed the 5DM bills from general circulation. Ironically enough the only time I ever got a 5DM note in change it was from a government agency. (it was also uncirculated)

Like any other normal country would.

And that's when American revolt and melt the coins down to shoot the government for forcing us to use those coins. Americans Attacked their own capitol don't think it can't get worse.

@@TheWatchernator To be fair, storing notes is easier than storing coins.

Keep em for when ur old

i thought you meant you had an 88 dollar coin, was so confused for a little

Keep them to troll your grandkids.

Bilimin Sırları how can I cash my one dollar coins in for cash

@@transparentseethru4832 your question looks like a recursive function

people already had dollar bills in their possession

Yes, but that's how you take 'old' money out of circulation: every time money is being deposited at a bank, you siphon off the old bills and send them back to the national bank or the mint (depending on the country). You only give out the new bills or coins uppon a withdrawal.

Because that would make huge public anger

Because people would have been pissed. Since this decision was made by politicians, they didn't want to vote on something that would piss off voters. Besides, it could had been harmful to people who rely on tips to get by. No more bills, no more tips.(And no people wouldn't just tip coins instead, they'll stop carrying coins and just their card everywhere)

@@Thumbsupurbum As someone living in europe, we constantly tip 1 euro coins, so I don't feel like that would be the case

Its hard to bill-ieve

The final bill for Bill's bill was in the billions.

I'm sorry. We have never had a Bill with the executive authority to sign a bill. Sorry to break it to you. That's not his name.

This deserves more likes

Dont forget that with the Anti-Bill bill Bill created BILLions of non-bills

"Day". One day Vito.

Or funding half the James Webb Space Telescope, but priorities, I guess

@@GoogleDoesEvil I think most people would say those are more important than the military

@@GoogleDoesEvil I love how you're telling me I'm in a bubble and yet make the assertion that the entire republican party thinks that the military is more important than social security and welfare.

@@GoogleDoesEvil 18% is a lot

Yeah but they are heavy.

Um so you care about US currency but you are from the UK

The American money system makes no sense why are they not waterproof and why do you need a $1 note

Darien C True, why aren’t our bills waterproof? Also, dollar coins are so much more useful as instead of a huge wad of bills, I carry the same amount with less space. And why the hell are we still minting pennies when they have hardly any value and cost more to mint than they’re worth?

@@darien6249 We have dollar stores.

Yea, but if you live in an urban environment. People know you have money. I go with the slow and low approach. People think I dress like a lower class bum who has nothing. It works for me.

@@jamesedwards3923 Lmao ur poor lol

Stacks of coins can be used for a rich-man's version of Pog.

@@jamesedwards3923 *jingle* "Oh shit, that guy has between zero and ten dollars! Let's mug him"

@@sauercrowder lol this made me chuckle 😂

I was a cashier in this era. Some customers specifically requested dollar coins instead of dollar bills.

So your friends coined “to coin”

Lmao, seemed fun

@Комендант Sixto this is the real reason for switching to coins.

"To coin" was already a verb.

Who in their right mind would pay over $1 to recieve $1?

@@zombieguyproducion There was a big story about this years ago, and the video did a poor job explaining it. One guy was able to get a million points on his airline card. This made him a "premium" frequent flyer for life. He gets automatic 1rst class upgrades, priority seating (he can't get bumped), concierge service, for life. In addition, he got something like the equivalent of 20 free domestic or 4-5 big international flights for free. All for picking up coins at his mailbox and driving them to the bank. One guy broke his axle he had so many in his trunk. If you had a cash back card, spending $1 million over a year earned you $10K back - and I'm not sure that income is reported. What the video also got wrong was that the credit card fee was the screw to the government. it wasn't, not by a long shot. It was the free shipping of hundreds/thousands of pounds (or kilos if you prefer) of coins via the US postal service. Sending just a 100 coins would have cost about $5 in postage; but because the government "paid" for this (that means the taxpayers), the excessive coin buyer dodged hundreds if not thousands of dollars in postage fees. The smarter move would have been for the government to limit the free shipping to like 500 coins per year. Still, if you recognized this when it happened, and took advantage of it you didn't do anything wrong; and a few people who really miked it have travel perks that continue to this day.

@@kd8opi I think you missunderstood my comment. If you removed free shipping then the price of buying a dollar coin would go above $1. You'd be losing money on buying the coins 🤷‍♂️

The mint would have to pay an armored truck to deliver that cash (or coin) to a bank for regular distribution. I don't know how much per pound armored trucks charge but it isn't done for free like they run a charity. ACH was in use back in 2011 so they should have just required a bank draft or mail in a check or money order and add a processing fee for cards just like the tax office charges.

@@TheAnantaSesa They just left it at your door. You can google the stories about it - it was crazy. People would get 10K in coins, and it weighed like 300 lbs. Then they'd have to deposit them in their bank, but most banks wouldn't take that many at once, so you had to do it over time, like $1000/day. One guy managed to get 4 million airline miles in one year.

Those are 2 things you have in common.

This video was only Half As Interesting to me

Sounds like an line from my school report.....

Every time I visit the US I miss the 1€,2€ and 50ct coins. Got a 1$ coin but I gave it away

Anytime I get cash I get dollar coins. Especially if I'm going on a trip. I'll get a roll or two of dollar coins and use that for small purchases like drinks on the drive up so I don't have to dig out my wallet. I also tend to have an easier time keeping track of my spending than when I'm using bills.

i was actually shocked when i found out the US uses 1 dollar biils.

@@DerToasti I heard that there are 2 dollar bills, I thought it was joke money. Now its all joke money. When you pay your bills, it means you're paying off a debt. Now they payoff one debt with another..... isn't that what a ponzi scheme is?

@@harryzero1566 thats almost the definition of a ponzi scheme

China uses 1￥ Bills which are worth like 0,12€ or something around 0.11$. We have Coins too which are used for vending machines for example but everyone prefers bills

Or go to Japan where there's 500 yen coins worth five times more. Current design looks beautiful with the big gold 500 and its size and weight worth its value. With the country's cash dependency and abundancy of vending machines, you'll need them.

Yeah I love our loonies ($1 coins)

I don’t understand how it works so well in Canada but not the US, I think the US should still at least try to get it popular

@@tonyrahme96 it's because the US half-assed implementing them, and so people refused to accept them because no one likes change in their life (haha, get it?). Speaking of US currency, their bills suck, and it's ridiculous that they refuse to use a $1 coin when they still use pennies.

Loonies suck at strip clubs

@@blakecampanella2502 The only real problem with US bills is the lack of any tactile indicator of value like other currencies have

A billion here, a billion there, eventually you're talking real money. (I can't recall which member of Congress to attribute the quote to. Maybe the same one who said that America should just declare glorious victory in Vietnam and go home.)

@@bearcubdaycare or one of the ones who said "Social Security doesnt need a cost of living increase, people on SS just need to budget better" and two weeks later said "Its impossible to live comfortably on less than 150k a year"

Guns, lots of guns... and a tank

White house person: Mr president we have 5 billion dollars Donald trump:Build me a Golf coarse

new cupholders for an army truck going by these days. Defence contracting is pure graft.

Why Politicians already know what they need to know, lie, lie some more, and lie with a straight face, and lie again.

A skillshare class on basic math would’ve sufficed. Heck a skillshare class on common sense would’ve raised a bunch of red flags.

Its the government they can do anything right. And people actually want them to be in charge of our health. What a joke.

Learning new skills is not a free money machine. It is subject to demnand for skills in the job market or demand for your services should you want to float your own. It is, at the most, free if you choose not to take up a paid plan. This is the reality of continuous education. :x

@@centpushups better the corporations who dont understand why putting 20 grams of sugar in milk to get you addicted isnt a good idea.

I work at a gas station I just turned 467$ to the bank.

@@SilverWatcher. What?

1 dollar coins

I get them from the vending machine at my school

@@maxpiatetsky3513 no.

Spread your love of dollar coins. It's simple, any bank can order $1 coin rolls, get them and use them. Yes you won't make much of a difference to the overall circulation of the coins but you will increase the chance that it will be given as change and introduce someone else to dollar coins. One roll is $25, might as well try it. $1 and 50¢ coins are very neat coins that I strongly believe should be used more.

matthew portilla how would strippers get paid then

@@ap7k533 In two dollar bills..

@d_a_n_y You think people pay them exactly one dollar each??

ap7 K5 via $1 headshots

@d_a_n_y or people who throw bills at strippers could cut the frequency of throwing bills in half

The most underrated comment around

2.4m coins... Yeah, seems fair

That’s exactly what I was thinking

just as we do right here in Ecuador

Ricardo Yoncón Romero I bet $1 buys a lot more in Ecuador than it does in the US. You can barely even buy a candy bar for a dollar anymore here.

Hughes Enterprises you’re right: whether at Taco Bell or the bank they really have to rethink the money. Of course at Taco Bell they actually may doubt the existence of 2 dollar bills. A lot of cashiers disappear for a few seconds to talk to the assistant manager and verify it’s legitimate. Cheers Bill

I used to love when people paid using them. I would keep them, & put my own money in the register.

Hughes Enterprises that’s funny.

doubt they had free international shipping

Bulgaria has 2BGN coins and notes, which really threw me off

Christian Jiang yeah I’m Australian and we have $1 and 2 coins, with $5, 10, 20, 50, and 100 notes. Also Australia’s notes are the most advanced in the world, It’s weird thinking that most other country’s have paper notes

Max Nikolovski The UK have similar notes to yours, as well as Canadians

plus Canadian bills are great, they’re waterproof *and* colour coded 😏

@@ChristianJiang If I recall well. Australia was the first to switch to plastic notes. The reason I have been told, was that you could go the beach, swimming with your notes in your pocket. Good enough of a reason for me.

thank you

facts

that's literally how Canada switched to dollar coins

@@ichijofestival2576 surely a single dollar can't be that worthless? Can you literally not buy anything for a dollar?

@Warrior Son ya we could. Switching to the metric system really ain't that hard

Vending machines aren’t change machines

Same happened to me at an automated toll booth. Put in a $10 bill and got 8 dollar coins. It was at night and dark so at first I thought I was swindled thinking they were quarters.

I go to my central bus station... thing on a weekly basis to exchange my bills for $1 coins. They are smaller (in terms of area), easier to manage (you can literally feel the difference between them), and they don’t contain trace amounts of cocaine.

David Lev would you have preferred to get 60 quarters instead of 15 dollar coins? I’ve never seen a vending machine spit out paper money...

@@jpe1 The self-checkout machines at Walmart provide paper currency as change, so it is certainly possible for vending machines to also do this.

Eternal Tech ATMs also dispense paper money, so I certainly agree that vending machines *could* use such technology as in supermarket automatic checkouts and ATMs, but for whatever reason they don’t. Actually, that’s a really good question, why don’t more vending machines dispense paper money?

Bruh they still make them There's still tons of vending machines that give them

Quinn search for Cheerios Sacagawea coin. You may have something special in that jar after all

@@brandonrogers917 in very small quantities. You can often find people who will give more than $1 for a $1 coin. I collect them from vending machines, and toll booths. Since they're identified as quarters over $1 coins

Gonna be pretty amazing when you get to pay for an airline ticket with a 10 pound jar of money someday

You know this money you got which literally exists for you to spend it? Yeah don't spend that shit

Honestly using euro coins is pretty easy. #Love coins.

Would you prefer to have a stack of bills filling your wallet that equal to like 15 euros? I wouldn't

@dumdum 71 around 2 pounds

@@DimT670 ehm no... you just own a 10 euro bill and then for example 2 2 euro coins and 1 1 euro coin... as easy as that...

@Fmono • 38 years ago • Updated lmao mate i cant stop laughing

Yeah, government bureaucrats coming up with what they think is a great idea and trying to force it on the public. Very sadly an American thing for a while now.

Ever hear of 'government cheese'? Same energy

1st world problems am I rite?

The American problem is that they didn't just pull the dollar bills out of circulation if they wanted to switch to coins, like every other country that has done this.

u shut up

Federal reserve notes never have their value taken away. It might not be possible.

American are not that smart compare to the brits

That isn't how they take old currency out of circulation. The way they do that is they just take it out of circulation as they come in without any attempt or threat to make them no longer legal tender.

@ mate chill the fuck down no one wants listen to your shit. go on how your country won blah blah blah we dont care so u waste energy typing.

This has happened in India and it was not so well appreciated by the people

I assumed he meant American Express, since nobody takes that but most stores take Discover.

@@theconfusingwords there's actually a neighborhood in new york where all the restaurants will only accept American Express. It's the weirdest thing.

@@TheMetrored Its because Amex is for people who have good money and NYC is expensive. I stick with my Venture Card cause its visa and taken anywhere credit is taken

@@theconfusingwords it’s because they are too biased to the consumer; in the businesses eyes that is.

@@theconfusingwords so I'm not from the US but why is amex hated? Do they charge higher merchant fees or something? If they don't it seems dumb to turn people away for the brand of card they use

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haha its true

As a Canadian, this is normal to me, but instead of a statue of liberty on the coin, we have a loon.

I second this

The coiNs do seem Good tho like its Good for Everything since using paper kinda is just not Good

Me too. I really wish we did see them in circulation more.

@Steve Terry unless you are Al Bundy who tie a string to the dollar bill and pulls it back. Shoe salesman style.

@Steve Terry true. Lol. Here is how Al does it. Hilarious ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vK7oaY3Jeug.html

We have $2 coins in canada bigger than the loonie....would leave a great welt on a stripper lol

Hahaha. Funny. I. Did end. They throw me. Out

You can throw change at strippers in Alberta

* Throws coin at reaper drone *

please deposit $120000(in coins) to fire that missile

@@artbrann *Sponsored by:* Electronic Arts

@@dzidkapl EA would also have cash addons for the firing control, targeting, weapon hard points, and probably a few more things I am forgetting

I’m curious how do you do bold writing

Alex, They don't bother me any either my man! But I'm a numismatist!

dan smolen Same, it’s just I like the dollar coins too much to want to spend them 😅

ever carry $20.00 in coin? kind of heavy in the pocket. In the store we have a coin machine and the dollar and half dollar bags are almost always empty with only a small handful in each. In fact I don't remember ever seeing those two bags being changed, in the five years we have had the machine.

@@Delgen1951 how often do you carry $20 in $1 bills though? Just as cumbersome with how much it expands my wallet.

@@Delgen1951 what kind of idiot carries $20 of dollar coins. Why not just carry a bill.

Whoa, half dollars are pretty rare. I think i still have a really old one from my grandfather as an heirloom. I think it was the 1881 minting because I cant remember it well, but think it said 1881 on it, although I still feel like JFK's outline on the JFK coin looks more like what i remember. But yeah anyways, you spent a coin that could've been much more valuable than 50 cents at its face value?

It was a 1973 ... I know what I’m dealing with.

@@Andrux0821 ah very nice

@@andyb2028 I am sorry but he very well might have just spent a normal Kennedy half Dollar, any made after 1971 is worth...well 50 cents.

Want to see a look of sheer confusion? Give any cashier under about 35 years old a 50 cent piece. Last time I did the girl looked at it strange, threw it in the drawer, and gave me back change like it was a $2 coin...which of course has never existed in the United States. 😁😁😁

*Flying over the desert* "Insert coin to continue flight" as the engines slowly stop operating and the plane begins to slowly drop to an inevitable demise. The pilot is out of coins

they also have a vending machine on the ISS

Nah it would be the F-35 just to make it even more of a money sink.

Cuz folks might start to think that you can shave with coins. We're stupid.

Counterfeiting originally referred to shaving a coin to collect bits of metal. Dollar shave club then might be mistaken for a club for counterfeiters who shave dollar coins to get rich off the gold colored metal bits.

@@TheAnantaSesa How is that counterfeiting? That's more like money laundering.

Zapid; if you pass off 99% of a gold coin as though it is still a whole coin then you have passed illegitimate money aka counterfeit. It shares a lot in common with laundering. The rules have grown to address paper but they were written when money was all coins.

AnantaSesaDas Ah ok, thanks

Whats better then free ice cream ? :D

So in total the $1 coins seem to have a much higher value 🤔😀

Why were you dessed as a pirate?

@@RUSH2112RUSH It was Halloween, did it for the Pirates of the Caribbean.

@@RUSH2112RUSH also, gold coins

@Rene Descartes Who in turn ensure that the U.S can continually plunder resources to float your high wages lmao.

@Rene Descartes And what a glorious history! No country in the world is a Superpower without a powerful military! Built with oppression and blood, that is the foundation of almost every great country, just look at the Histories of Russia, and China l0l. Plenty of blood spilled. In a world with finite resources, you can't become filthy rich without some people becoming unimaginably poor.

@Rene Descartes Exactly, that is why no country/empire lasts forever. When the people are living in luxury, they loose the will to fight and work. That is what's happening in our country with social welfare lmao. Not a coincidence that the U.S won WW1 and WW2 when the people are hungry and ready to fight coming off a depression. Since then, the U.S has never fought a war that they outright won..... Korean war, Vietnam War, Gulf war, Iraq war etc....

@Rene Descartes L0l what a joke, didn't French pussies surrender to Hitler? The soviet union did more than the rest of the allies combined in Europe. But the U.S would have won in the end even if Britain and France did nothing because they developed the Nuke first....

SEAN L Is the bad history of the U.S due to the misinformation spread about how much gum a elephants eats per year?

It's easier to bombard with a cluster of Dollar coins than with real ammunition.

it's also way cheaper

Ichijo Festival that’ll work

Ichijo Festival and cheeseburgers and pizza

It would be more american if the vending machine served fried chicken and mcdonalds while on a bald eagle thats eating twinkies

Or bill cipher

@@Funlifedoga Idk about you, But A cartoon character from 2016 That's a copy Of The illuminati all seeing eye isn't the first thing that comes in mind to me. Bill Clinton is

Bill signing anti-bill bill...

@@retf8977 the all-seeing eye and illuminati symbol is literally most famously found on American dollar bills...

Nah those were the articles of impeachment

Call your bank and order a box

Check out the jumbo 50 cent coin that ones gnarly

Anti-bill bill?

STONKS

@Warrior Son yeap a pack of gum.

@@Delgen1951 lol

Where?

Pineapple Cake at a bank.

its big because its based on the old dollar coins

why would anyone want to bring change around with them??

@@rednecktash why are only coins considered change?

Exactlyy... Ask my government .. they stopped the circulation of the most used notes overnight 😂

@@rednecktash Canadian here. In practice, you would only ever carry a small number of coins up here. But that's because we also have $2 coins, so I actually never have more than 5 or 6 coins with me when I'm out.

They won't even stop making pennies when they cost more than 1¢ each to make. Federal reserve is run by idiots. Edit: Oops I mean the treasury. Fed isn't so bright either though.

Only idiots and bachelor parties go to strip clubs.

@2 0 strippers work in strip clubs, big difference.

@2 0 they work there and do their thing after hours.

@@1Outis1 r/whoosh

@2 0 okay, you made your point. Mine is that being a customer in a strip club is idiotic. You waste your money on nothing.

basically all quarters produced for 20 years were state quarters. I think they're similar function/form balance

Next up : Try to convince a cashier to accept a two dollar bill. To quote an older gentleman I know: "I remember the two dollar bill. I used them in the seventies. Do they even make them anymore?"

And ???

@@klobiforpresident2254 Did you know they do still make a ton of $2 bills? I got a tour of one of the Federal Reserves and they said they make a lot more $2 bills than they get back. (With all the other bills they get back about the same amount they put out) So there's a lot of people just keeping these $2 bills so they can say they have one

@@yourdailygrapes7451 I did not know. I don't live in the USA anymore but when I was there they were a rarity to see.

@@klobiforpresident2254 Got a couple to spend here on the desk. 2013 notes. Trying to decide what store would be the most fun to spend them at...

Use precious metals

You love coins? Are you stupid or do you use them as weapons?

@@RabbitsInBlack I love coins too. Sorry if it bothers you that our preferences don't match yours, but that doesn't make us stupid.

@@snowangelnc So you love to carry bricks around. I'm guessing self hate?

@@RabbitsInBlack You're country's coins are as large and heavy as bricks???? Yikes, where do you live?!?!?!

Australians with their $2 coins, as well.

Apparently our 20 Peso bill will become 20 peso coin.

20 pesos are slightly less than 0.5 dollars.

And Brits with our £1 and £2 coins - though there was a lot of moaning when the £1 coin was introduced in 1983. People just don't like change.

And Canadian Loonies and Toonies. Though we missed out on calling our $2 coin "Doubloons."

Super late response, when i was a kid i took the subway to the bus to the amusement park. put a 50 dollar bill in to pay for my week bus pass. got 43 dollars in coins back because it was out of cash. I was wearing underarmor loose basketball shorts with big pockets. First ride I go on, im so excited to sit in the front i forget about the 4 pounds of jingling coins and when we go on the strait up I hear ping ping ping ouch ouch what the fuck ouch is that money ouch. as the coins fall from my pocket and pinballed all the way down the rows of people sitting helplessly getting blasted in the face by falling dollar coins.

Did you try asking the president on the back?

@@klobiforpresident2254 lol

@jake black 'Twas a joke if you didn't realize.

@jake black It's okay, the US govt doesn't understand the loans they sign either.

You'll probably get complaints if you start throwing them in a strip club.

The Great CooLite They got us in the first half not gonna lie.

@@qwertyuiopzxcfgh Say you're making it hail

Coins are less convenient to carry if your primary money container is a foldable wallet. The vast majority of Americans don't have wallets with coin pouches and so coins would have to simply rattle around in your pocket.

@@LongliusHere in Europe we have the euro and 1 and 2 Euro Coins. I don't really like them. They just make your wallet big. But the positive side is that you can carry them in the same pocket (of your pants) as your keys and they don't get damaged. But I don't think that small bills are better and wouldn't want such small one's. They get damaged quickly. The biggest "problem" are anyway the coins smaller then 1 €. They don't really have a value, while still making the purse big.

@Ben Kent You're right Sir, it's obvious a lot of people remain poor due to ignorance, it's better to take risks and make sacrifices than to remain poor

@@royalhighness8383 It's not ignorance but due to some unprofessional broker in the market

I recently got into forex trading and im already marveling over the profits I'm making, I'm like " how the hell have i been sleeping on this

Obviously trading in bitcoin is very volatile and risky to trade that's the reason most traders trade with a company

Learn and trade under a guide I do same and I hardly make losses in the market

Tevo77777 I’m in Australia and I think dollar notes are kinda cool but we have $1 $2 coins

They are-but not the poorly designed $usan B. Anthony coins that were to similar in size to a quarter. I get those sometimes in the rolls of dollar coin I pick up monthly at the credit union. The only use I've foound for them is in parking meters.

As a Canadian I don't understand why Americans hate it. I can't imagine having a thick stack of bills and it's just a bunch of $1s. Dollar coins are better.

NHL VAN - why do you imagine we have thick stacks of $1 bills? Lol. Most Americans would carry (for instance) a single 20 dollar bill over twenty one-dollar bills. Also, coins are heavy and obnoxious to carry while bills are light and easy to handle.

@@nhlvan incorrect. Coins are heavier and fall out of wallets. They are inconvenient. I carry 20 dollars in my wallet 5 $1 bills and 3 $5 bills (99% of my purchases are made via nfc). Thats 4 bills. Also in order to have the same amount of money as "a thick stack of bills" you'd probably have over a kilo of coins. No american carries 50 single dollar bills. Most dont even carry over 50 dollars since everything is digitized.

The $1 coin "deal" is fairly well known to those who are obsessed with collecting miles and points. The story was featured in the Wall Street Journal.

He always does!

Thats wendover

Move to $1 coins and you can use $2 notes for rain instead. Er, you do have $2 notes, right? I know we used to before we brought in the $2 coin in Australia.

So the thing you have to realize about the $1 coins is that they actually were big and bulky. $1 coins were bigger than quarters, which in turn are bigger than the 1-2€ euro peices

@@jamalsachleben3026 ok. Then they should have made them smaller.

@@David_Granger They should!

@@jamalsachleben3026 jesus. That's crazy, considering I'm assuming were introduced after the 'worth in material' era. Our 5 swiss franc coins are ginormous (31.5mm - around 1.2 inches) and weigh 13.2 grams, but that stems from the fact that back in the day they were made of silver, which was more or less worth around those 5 francs during that time.

At least it came from Bush and not Bill

Lol

Haha, fuck society am I right, guys?

@@gabijota11 SHRIMPS.

@@yinyang1217 oh fuck society then, we got mothefuckin shrimp

@@gabijota11 HELL YEAHHH

Ah, a man who watches Stossel, if I am not mistaken.

The government can’t do anything with any amount of money - the free market always prevails

I didnt get you can you plz explain? Plz dont call me an idiot

@@itismethatguy They are talking about how the government cannot handle money well at all, as they spend a trillion dollars almost yearly.

@@itismethatguy idiot

@@NoName-hx5gj you're an idiot without a name Lol tho I actually wanted someone to reply that but as a joke

we also have two dollar bills circulating widely

How common are strip clubs in Ecuador? Maybe fat stacks of bills gives no joy to people in Ecuador?

In america a $1 can't buy you any thing I only rarely find something at $1 for price

@@Artoliann useful for exact change and having a coin versus a bill wouldn't change anything in that regard

Ive always found it so weird, why dont you use your own currency primarily as opposed to clown dollars?

@@happydogg312 Ikes are 50c

minecraft reference.

haha yes mine craft references are suddenly cool but a year ago they were awfully hated

Or they could just switch to using emeralds.

ohad. Too rare, I ain’t giving up an emerald for 1 candy, the Viligars have done that enough

We do it all the time here in Alberta, Canada lol

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That's what the two dollar bills are for

That's extremely common here in Alberta

Should have went with $2 bills

Lol

they are slim and not heavy, the best coin.

The british five pence coin was the same size as a 25 pfennig german coin in the 70's, worth about a quarter of the amount.

The 10 peso from republique dominicaine look like the 2 $can. I was shock to discover that in my casher machine.

That's why you get $2 bills in your change at strip clubs. (That & you're likely to tip strippers twice as much.)

Tbh, I think it'd be cooler to have a strip club where the stage has a moat and operated like a fountain. So they're literally wet and its like some kinda sexy wish fountain thing. They could bring back those peepshow places where you pay money to activate some blinds into a show. Hell, they have a slot built in _technically_

that's where the Ass Crack bandit from the tv show, Community got their idea

Coin slot?😳

Fun fact gorilla glue one side and they stick just fine

It’s not even funny anymore.

It's pathetic that so many people still believe the government's lies after being lied to so much.

@warren WTF 911 wasn't staged and there's literally no evidence to support that for one. Two, we haven't been "losing" in the middle east. A relatively low intensity war is going to get low intensity results. In this case, Afghanistan had its first legitimate election in decades. Back in 2016 but it still proves a point.

warren WTF first of all most opioids don’t actually come from opium. That vast majority causing overdoses in the US are synthetic. Our problems are completely home-grown. There’s a multitude of reasons the US is intervening in the Middle East, but opium isn’t one of them. And 911 being staged is not only a blatant lie that purposely ignores presented evidence and proof in favor of your own claims which apparently are somehow right because you say they are, it’s disrespectful and insulting to all those who died in the tragedy. You’re telling the thousands of people who died in the catastrophe or later trying to save others that they didn’t matter. You’re telling them that their lives were worthless and that you don’t care that they died because “iT’S FAkE.” Their lives are meaningless because you seem to think the body that was created to protect you is secretly out to get you, and so you justify it by turning one of the worst national tragedies ever, and by association, everyone who suffered during it, into a meme. If there somehow, someway that the government did cause such a horrible accident without ever releasing any incriminating evidence, why are you still here? They can somehow kill thousands without any suspicion, and yet they can’t remove one person who bravely shouts the truth? And I’ve yet to hear any reason why any administration would do something so stupid. A botched burglary brought down the Nixon administration. A controversy this big wouldn’t of just brought down Bush, it likely destroy the whole government, if just one person said one wrong thing to the wrong person. Why would anyone risk something that big, just to kill thousands of their own citizens and cause massive economic damages? Everyone gets so caught up speculating how, they never stop and realize there is no why.

I wonder if this is a reason why the cashless economy took off sooner in Europe than America. When I lived places with larger value coins, like Canada or the UK, having that much in coins in my pocket was a bit of a worrisome nuisance. Losing quarters under the car seat is less irksome than losing pounds, euros or even loonies (Canadian dollars, which used to have loons on them).

How?

well im a european and that doesnt effect me at all, but what i do hate is money for less than a euro, so like 0.20, 0.50 and such, that is a bit annoying

How do you end up with so many euro coins is baffling to me... Most of the time I'm having a shortage on then when I'm on the go.. but the euro coins are the first to go into my piggy bank so that's probably a reason. But even then I don't even really get thirty of them. I'm in Malaysia now, and the one Ringit on the other hand is a whole other story... It's impossible not to have that! And that anoys me, because it's taking up place/getting between the bigger bills...

Right? Whenever I travel somewhere with 1 and 2 unit coins my wallet gets full and heavy so fast. At home, I'd just use a card tho.

Kolton Kobza lol saw the quarter stack trick once still gobsmacked by memory

Why don't you just use a credit card or NFC payment? It's even easier.

@@encycl07pedia- Because it gets annoying trying to sift thru that many tiny payments when checking my finances / not every vending machine accepts card

@@Jackspugoasters It sounds like you have a spending and/or organization problem. Not every machine accepts $1 coins, either. through* though*

All of the vending machines on my campus give out $1 coins as change

@@encycl07pedia- Because cash is king.

$2 bills are awesome. All of my grand parents thought they were lucky and kept 1 in wallet and/or bible. We're still poor so I dunno about the logic.

Ive literally never used one. Owned a few when i was a kid but still never used one

A PAIR OF SCISSORS!!!!!!!!