Had a chance to handle some just the other day and they feel too much like quarters, Again! Actually they Will be mistaken, or not, for quarters. I carry very little change and especially don't carry those pesky pennys that seem to get everywhere. I will Not be carrying any of the new gold quarters, I mean dollars. Now were can I get a heavier belt to hold the 511's up?
They have to be roughly the size of a quarter or smaller to fit in the coin slots we have in use today. If they made them bigger, than every machine that accepts coins would have to be redesigned (which would cost buisness owners a lot of money, it would even cost me a few grand because of the change machines in a laundry mat I own). By making them the same size it is just a matter of a simple software upgrade.
The point of the dollar coin is they are trying to catch up with inflation. Now it takes a dollar to pay for what a quarter used to do. If you go to a big arcade/boardwalk all the games are now dollar games, in the 90's the majority of them were quarter games.
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