The E-Sylum:  Volume 7, Number 38, September 19, 2004, Article 10

SACAGAWEA COIN CRITICISM STILL PREVALENT

  Dick Johnson writes: "Americans are eschewing the Shoshone
  Sacagawea golden dollars - they don't use them for change,
  retailers don't want to stock them and banks claim there is too
  little demand for the quarter-size coins.

  In Cleveland, Plain Dealer reporter Christopher Montgomery
  reports that the Regional Transit Authority gets 300 to 500
  dollar coins a day, while a local toll booth on the Ohio Turnpike
  may only see five a week.  He quotes West Cuyahoga Coin
  Club president John Schmitt and coin dealer Gino Sanfilippo
  (ABC Art & Coin Exchange in Brecksville), who said "As
  long as people have a choice, they'll go with the bill."

  Sanfilippo noted Canada's success in issuing a dollar coin,
  then eliminating dollar notes.

  Full story: Full Story

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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