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Dollar coins make sense, moreso as time marches on. They sure have tried, but until they stop printing paper dollars no one will use them.

We have $1 and $2 coins in Canada. I can't imagine dealing with $1 bills.

I’d probably rather the opposite, dollar bills and no coins. There are very few things I can spend less than $1 on and coins are much more annoying to carry.

I can stuff some bills in the mini-wallet I carry. Coins mean they're either rattling around in my pocket or I need to carry some sort of coin purse. And, when I travel, I end up with this bag of unfamiliar coins that I'm trying to figure out at the counter. (Though I use cash when traveling at fewer and fewer places these days.)

I typically keep $2 bills as the smallest denomination in my wallet, with a couple of half‐dollar and dollar coins.

just introduce new coins. if we were keeping up, the modern equivalent of a 1913 quarter would be an ~8 dollar piece.

As if extreme volatility and being inherently deflationary is any better (not that crypto is money anymore that any other commodity is)