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Re:Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Inn... by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday October 16, 2025 @07:17AM (#45604011)
The single biggest problem with $1 coins, is that they are of similar size to quarter-dollar coins.

    26.50 mm (1.043 in) - $1.00
    24.26 mm (0.955 in) - $0.25
They feel almost identical, in your pocket, and the $1 coin is small enough to get stuck in many vending machines.

I am not exactly sure of the reason that the mint is so resistant to making the coins a bit bigger (they used to be).

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Re:Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Inn... by microtherion on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:53AM (#45605361)
Another, NSFW, problem with $1 coins is that their universal adoption would lead to a lot of bruised strippers.
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Re:Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Inn... by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday October 16, 2025 @09:56AM (#45605392)
I hear that they don't accept anything less than a $20 bill, these days...
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Re:Steve Jobs and Cray-1 to be featured on 2026 American Inn... by butlike on Thursday October 16, 2025 @10:23AM (#45605725)
"Making it rain" turning into "making it hail"
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