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Re:Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Inn... by contrarian1234 on Thursday October 16, 2025 @05:33AM (#45603273)
There are 1 dollar coins and 50 cent coins. The issue is that they've never had consistent designs/sizes so machines don't take them and people don't recognize them. To my mind, this is the primary reason they haven't caught on
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Re:Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Inn... by hakfoo on Friday October 17, 2025 @08:47PM (#45623823)
The 50-cent coin has been a consistent size since about 1836. It weighs exactly as much as two 25-cent or five ten-cent coins.

The dollar coin has been the same size since 1979, and the same colour since 2000.

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