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  1. Don’t you still get them in change from the MBTA token machines? That’s where I usually see them. (I did get a Susan B. Anthony dollar in change from the 1369 coffee house earlier this week…)

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  3. The golden dollar was phased out because retail cashiers would, despite its being large and golden, frequently confuse it for a quarter. Apparently giving customers extra change here and there really eats into the bottom line. I would imagine it is still legal currency but is no longer being actively produced. I saw them frequently in the midwest soon after they came out, but I don’t think I ever got one in Massachusetts.

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  4. Shimon,

    I didn’t know that! How sad. It’s certainly less like a quarter than the older Susan B. Anthony dollar, which had the same circumference and a notched edge like a quarter.

    However, I can go to Watertown Savings Bank and get a $20 roll of them and frequently do. I like giving them as tips. Kids like ’em too. Also, if you get change from stamp machines that’s greater than $1 you sometimes get golden dollars.

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  5. I was just about to take back what I said about the Sacagawea dollar being phased out, since I had only heard this from a friend and couldn’t find any supporting evidence on the net. Finally I found an article mostly about the new $20 that mentions it:

    When the Treasury released the Sacagawea dollar coin in 1999, it was slow to take off, despite wide promotion by the government. Three years later, a General Accounting Office poll revealed that 97 percent of the nation had not used the coin in the past month and 74 percent could not ever remember using one. Thus, the coin was slowly phased out of production. http://www.badgerherald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/10/10/3f861c4ac3d6a

    So perhaps they were not really being confused for quarters; maybe people just didn’t feel like using them.

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