Sunday, February 18, 2007
There is a new $1 coin
Even though the U.S. Mint facilities in Denver and Philadelphia have made a combined 300 million of these, the only place I’ve seen them is on eBay. I’m sure they will eventually turn up in everyday life. I’m looking forward to using them.
I like coins. I’m not a coin collector, but I’m pretty sure I have the coin collecting gene. I’ve just really never allowed it to fully manifest itself. It takes a lot of money to collect coins. They don’t call it the Hobby of Kings for nothing. The inference is that kings have a lot of money. More money then electronic technicians such as myself have. It’s true. Kings make more money then electronic techs. I looked it up on Wikipedia once.
I don’t even know who “they” is.
These $1 coins kick off a new $1 coin program that will each feature a dead president. Even the ones nobody really remembers. Even the ones nobody really likes anymore. Every three months, a new $1 coin will be released. The first coin is Washington and the final coin will be of Reagan. I expect right-wingers to go crazy about that one.
Right-wingers love Ronald Reagan. They will have to wait till 2016 to use them.
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Even though the all of the previous dollar coins have been collosal flops, I’m looking forward to seeing all the President coins.
On a slightly related tangent, I once tried to use a 2 dollar bill to buy a candy bar and a soda when I was a kid. The cashier didn’t believe me that the 2 dollar bill was real. I had to go to the store next door, exchange the bill for quarters with a cashier who had at least a little more than a brainstem in her head, and then go back and buy my snack.
It was a zero bar and a Dr. Pepper, for the record. And fuck that cashier.
PS- I should have tried using a Schooly Buck
LOL
I actually collect Schooly Bucks. I even have one of those blue Whitman albums that I put each year’s Schooly buck. It’s probably the nicest thing I own. It would be the first thing I grab in a fire. That and my graded copy of Spider-Man 2099 #1.
“Right-wingers love Ronald Reagan. They will have to wait till 2016 to use them.”
I’m semi-conservative and that was just a great line. Somewhat glad I found this place in an odd kind of way.