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COINS Act submitted to The House of Representatives

EagleEyeEagleEye Posts: 7,677 ✭✭✭✭✭
H.R. 2977

The bill calls on the FED to recall the SBA dollar coins and increase the golden dollar circulation with the end game being replacing the paper dollar bill.

They want to ship all the SBA dollars to Ecuador, where they use US dollar coins.

"COINS" stands for Currency Optimization, Innovation, and National Savings Act
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  • keyman64keyman64 Posts: 15,519 ✭✭✭✭✭
    A step in the right direction. Getting rid of the paper $1 and pulling the golden dollars out of their expensive storage so they can circulate will save this country a good bit of money.
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  • philographerphilographer Posts: 1,316 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>They want to ship all the SBA dollars to Ecuador, where they use US dollar coins. >>



    Man, I feel really sorry for the people of Ecuador.

    He who knows he has enough is rich.

  • It is an idea that is long overdue. Any ideas that will start reducing the costs of our government are starting to be taken seriously. I only wish they would come up with a better dollar coin. The golden dollars lose their golden color pretty fast in circulation, and end up looking pretty gtoss. They can be easily confused with quarters at that stage, a problem that lead to the demise of the SBA dollar. A larger size would solve the problem.
  • I wonder if they do this will the SBA still be legal spendable tender in the U.S.?
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  • PerryHallPerryHall Posts: 46,291 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>I wonder if they do this will the SBA still be legal spendable tender in the U.S.? >>



    I have no doubt that it will still be legal tender here in the U.S.

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  • TwoSides2aCoinTwoSides2aCoin Posts: 44,404 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I hope it passes. It would be nice to see those coins in PO-01 condition.
  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    At last, the ponderous mechanism we know as government, has started to move in what only can be called a long overdue and logical direction. Of course, it could take decades for this to actually become reality. Cheers, RickO
  • scotty1419scotty1419 Posts: 928 ✭✭✭
    At least the Ecuadorians know how to spend dollar coins image
  • ambro51ambro51 Posts: 13,822 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The confusion between the SBA and the quarter is real. I know coins (or at least I think I do) and a few days ago decided my wawa lunch run would be 'all coin'. Thats usually a six dollar trip...so I scooped up quarters from the workbench and table...and yes I had a SBA in there (part of what I got from the train ticket machine)....and you know..I spent it as a quarter?

    some expert I am, eh?

    so if someone who thinks coins 12 hours out of the day can spend one by mistake as a quarter...I suppose the majority of people cn do it also.

    So I guess now is the time we all should start hoarding the soon to be ultra rare SBA?

    How the heck does the us govt intend to recall a non circulating (for the most part ) coin? Check with all the banks and fed branches?

    Or will they take out an ad in craigs list "wanted, sba dollars. will pay face, call B. Obama"
  • messydeskmessydesk Posts: 20,029 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>They want to ship all the SBA dollars to Ecuador, where they use US dollar coins. >>


    Ecuador like using US dollar coins in part because the Sacagawea looks plausibly native to them. I wonder what cultural anxieties seeing SBA's mug on a coin will stir up.
  • jmski52jmski52 Posts: 22,954 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I'm not sure how Ecuador figures into a piece of US coinage legislation. I mean, why not pay Saudi with them for a few supertanker loads of oil? What did Ecuador ever do to deserve this kind of treatment?
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  • If the U.S. wants to give them to some small South American country why not:


    Venezuela. I bet our ole buddy Hugo Chávez would love it image


  • << <i>I'm not sure how Ecuador figures into a piece of US coinage legislation. I mean, why not pay Saudi with them for a few supertanker loads of oil? What did Ecuador ever do to deserve this kind of treatment? >>



    From Wikipedia:

    "The US dollar became legal tender in Ecuador March 13, 2000 and sucre (old Ecuador currency) notes ceased being legal tender on September 11. Sucre notes remained exchangeable at Banco Central until March 30, 2001 at 25,000 sucres per dollar. Ecuador now only issues its own centavo coins."


  • Bring back the IKE dollars
  • DBSTrader2DBSTrader2 Posts: 3,486 ✭✭✭✭
    I thought the Ecuadorians like the Sac dollars - - not the SBA's...............
  • GoldbullyGoldbully Posts: 17,497 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>At last, the ponderous mechanism we know as government, has started to move in what only can be called a long overdue and logical direction. Of course, it could take decades for this to actually become reality. Cheers, RickO >>



    Kinda reminds me of the old axiom, "Hispanics are doing the jobs Americans won't do."


  • << <i>I'm not sure how Ecuador figures into a piece of US coinage legislation. I mean, why not pay Saudi with them for a few supertanker loads of oil? What did Ecuador ever do to deserve this kind of treatment? >>




    Ecuador has been using the Sacagawea for quite a few years now.
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