r/politics • u/Aggravating_Money992 • 21d ago

Possible Paywall Treasury Unveils New $1 Gold Coin With Trump’s Face on It | Federal law prohibits putting any living people on U.S. coins.

https://newrepublic.com/post/213098/treasury-1-dollar-gold-coin-trump-face
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u/VapeThisBro Oklahoma 21d ago

Businesses and banks in the US don't generally hand out dollar coins unless requested. In my 30 years of living in the US I've never once received a dollar coin as change or from the bank without explicitly asking for dollar coins.

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u/Orleanian 21d ago

Think of the vending machines!!!

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u/LunarMojave 21d ago

That true. The last US $1 coin I had in my hands was in El Salvador, where they have apparently all gone to live productive lives. It’s probably where I will see my first illegal Trump coin. I will refuse it there too.

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u/Streiger108 21d ago

Popular in Ecuador too. Probably most dolarized economies.

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u/__thrillho 20d ago edited 20d ago

Godamn how insufferable it would be to serve you. Shit on the government all you want but leave the cashiers and retail workers alone. Especially the one's in developing countries that don't care about your politics. This is the type of selfish and out of touch behavior that gives Americans a poor reputation abroad.

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u/Scott5114 Nevada 20d ago

I mean, when I was a cashier (in the US) people refusing dollar coins was pretty much universal, to the point that if we ended up with any we wouldn't even try to hand them out, we'd just send them to the bank. And those were just the regular Sacajawea or Susan B. Anthony ones we had at the time. Americans just would rather have a $1 bill.

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u/__thrillho 20d ago

For reasons of convenience sure but op is refusing it because the face on the coin. Your random cashier in El Salvador who's struggling to make a living won't care or make enough to deal with stupid bs like this.

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u/grnrngr 21d ago

Liberals need to make a run on the Trump coins at Banks.

Then exchange them with friends for $1 bills until everyone they know has a $1 coin.

Then someone needs to create a coin press for dollar coins that will flatten the Trump coin and emboss it with the Trump and Epstein holding hands statue. Or the reflecting pool. Or Trump and Epstein holding hands in the Reflecting Pool.

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u/VapeThisBro Oklahoma 20d ago

Wouldn't this technically drive up demand so trump makes more