They introduced the Sacagawea dollar coins a while back with the expectations that people would use them for daily transactions. After an initial brief interest, they quickly fell off. Turns out that people in the US don’t really care to use coins, and used the paper $1 bills at every opportunity.
I used them. We had a drink dispenser on a college campus that would dispense Sacagawea coins as change and I would feed spare change and get my dollars back and save them until I had enough to make a coin purse like a pirate and go spend them at the bar.
They introduced the Sacagawea dollar coins a while back with the expectations that people would use them for daily transactions. After an initial brief interest, they quickly fell off. Turns out that people in the US don’t really care to use coins, and used the paper $1 bills at every opportunity.
I used them. We had a drink dispenser on a college campus that would dispense Sacagawea coins as change and I would feed spare change and get my dollars back and save them until I had enough to make a coin purse like a pirate and go spend them at the bar.