Am I just going to the wrong banks?................
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Or have SAC/NA/Prez dollars completely stopped circulating?
I used to be able to walk in & they'd either have loose ones in their trays or rolls either from the Mint or customer turn-ins. And the Post Office used to have stamp machines that would make change using SBA or golden dollars.
Now those Post Office machines are gone, and no local banks I frequent have any gold dollars.
Did they send them all back to the government for storage, and, with no new ones being provided to banks/circulating, are there relatively few remaining out there that people have/return anymore?
I've been asking in the hope of finding a few from back between 2010-2013 to help a fellow Forum member who helped me out, but there aren't any to be found.......... 
Other than widen my bank search, any other non-dealer/show suggestions on where to find them still hanging around?
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On my last visit to the hospital (approx. 2+years ago) the vending machines spit out nothing but $1 coins.
At my age, I try to AVOID hospitals!!
Oh goodness, I curse the beasts - I want Ikes an' all they offer usually are the prexibux. Couple of years ago I did hae a '22 Peace waiting for me at one of my banks though.
Every now and then I spot a few of the "golden" dollars in the cash registers of fast food places. I used to ask for them in change but no longer do. I've completely lost interest in them.
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I read the above or a similar article several years ago, yet here we are still......... and even MORE unwanted dollars in the vaults! PLUS, technically, the Prezbucks series has "ended", yet NA $1's continue to be minted.
Wouldn't the FIRST thing the Federal Reserve should try be to allow any newly-minted $1 coins to go into circulation once again (but mixed in with existing inventory, so collectors who wanted pure rolls of each Prez/NA would still have to buy them at a premium from the Mint)? That might at least again peak some collecting interest by the average guy (who might try to get ones they couldn't previously to complete collections), which might in turn improve somewhat the level of acceptance?
If not, then melt MOST of the inventoried coins, write them off the books, and raise the value of the remaining now lower- mintage coins, which they could once again sell on the Mint's website? A win-win!
And maybe with the melted metal, we can start a FOURTH series with something even MORE American & publicly-accepted.... Maybe Baseball teams? Start with 4 or 5 a year, starting with the first World-Series-winning team/city, and work your way up until the most recent. Cubs fans could once again use the "wait till next year" (or 5 or 6 years) mantra until it's THEIR turn to get a Cubs coin minted. Just think of the upside potential!! And, just like some ex-Presidents have to wait until their coin gets minted, cities/teams who have never won would also either have to wait, or sit forlornly at the end of the line for their turn......
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Locate bank branches that are nearest to commuter train stops. The nice, and PRETTY, manager at my bank always has rolls, and rolls, and....rolls of dollars waiting just for me. I do enjoy roll searching Presidential Dollars. I asked her why she has a seemingly unlimited supply. She told me that the train station down the street gets them from the government, can't get rid of them and then takes them to the bank where she keeps them just for me.
I have found that fewer are circulating in my area, too. Once upon a time it was easy to get rolls from somewhere around, and the few in the coin tray, too.
As far as obtaining them:
I think min order is $2,000 of them (2x $1,000 box).
Some banks might do a $1,000. However, you need to take all of them immediately and have a second dump bank (not branch) to get rid of them.
Many banks don't want to order them because they don't want to be stuck with $1,000 to $2,000 worth of coins that might sit in a vault until they get sent back all because a customer promised to pick them up but did not.
-> always pick up the coins the day they arrive or the next day if the same day is impossible. (they take up valuable vault space for stuff they'd rather have in there like cents dimes nickels)
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I see them in the change trays at my banks.... never asked for rolls. Vending machines at Post Offices also give them in change.... They may have rolls if you ask nicely. Cheers, RickO
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The bank I use has plenty of circulated dollar rolls - a mixture of Presidential, NA, and Susan B. If they want the dollar coins to be used, get rid of the paper dollar.
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It seems as if my local bank of 50 years no longer has any rolls of dollar coins any more. I would get a couple rolls every two weeks to spend around town. I go in there now and they might have a few loose coins. I have complained about it to the manager of the bank but he doesn't seem to care. I have tried other banks but no one has any coins. The only way to get them to circulate is to stop making dollar bills.
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Hydrant: I have to find out where you live. Not just for the train station coins, but for the pretty bank manager!!! ;-) Failing that, I'll have to find out where ADG's bank with plenty of mixed rolls is............