The New $1.00 coin

MIKEMCKEE · #1 (**permalink**) 03-02-2009

REFUSE NEW COINS

This simple action will make a strong statement.

Please help do this.. Refuse to accept these when they are handed to you.
I received one from the Post Office as change and I asked for a dollar bill instead.
The lady just smiled and said 'way to go' , so she had read this e -mail.
Please help out...our world is in enough trouble without this too!!!!!

U.S.Government to Release New Dollar Coins

You guessed it
'IN GOD WE TRUST' I S GONE!!!
If ever there was a reason to boycott something, THIS IS IT!!!!

DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW DOLLAR COINS AS CHANGE

Together we can force them out of circulation.

patrickrea · #2 (**permalink**) 03-02-2009

Actually, we in Canada have the $1 coin for a while and I really don't mind them. You get a bunch in your pocket, throw em in a jar and save them up. You don't miss it and when you go to cash in the jat you have several hundred bucks saved. Take your wife out for dinner, buy something for the boat, whatever.

RanAweigh · #3 (**permalink**) 03-02-2009

You have been sucked in to a false impression by a mass email.

Take a look at the edge of the coin:

Read the info here: snopes.com: New Dollar Coins and 'In God We Trust'

Fair winds

WouldaShoulda · #4 (**permalink**) 03-02-2009

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bene505

Can youpost a picture of the coin, so we know what to look for?

Regards

http://www.usmint.gov/mint_programs/$1coin/index.cfm?flash=yes

Ooops!!

Bene505 · #5 (**permalink**) 03-02-2009

Thanks Woulda. So easy to get sucked into these types of things.

Regards

Brezzin · #6 (**permalink**) 03-02-2009

I remember when they came out with the Susan B Anthony $1 coin. bartenders made a fortune. If you were do 2.75 in change. The bartenders used all coin or 1 paper dollar and one dollar coin. and most people would leave all of it as a tip seeing only 1 dollar and some coins.

Valiente · #7 (**permalink**) 03-03-2009

Why is it important to have God on your money? Is your god Mammon?

RanAweigh · #8 (**permalink**) 03-03-2009

Valiente,

It is a statement of policy. In God we trust, all others must pay cash.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Valiente

Why is it important to have God on your money? Is your god Mammon?

skipmac · #9 (**permalink**) 03-03-2009

People, please check out these emails before you spam the world with them. Only takes a few minutes of your time to save the time of all your friends.

Plus, even if this had been true I have to agree with Valiente.

Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's. If your beliefs are not in your heart putting them on your money isn't going to make much difference.

MIKEMCKEE · #10 (**permalink**) 03-03-2009

Subject: $1 coin

The e-mail going around advocating boycotting the new $1 coin is partially true. CONGRESS has instructed the U,S, Mint to remove "In God We Trust" from the new coin as soon as possible. This will happen in the 9th minting of the coin in 2009. The first 8 mintings will have the inscription on the EDGE of the coin. The appropriate action if you object to this is 1) write your Congressman and express your displeasure with the action of congress to remove the logo and 2) when you receive the coin in change check for "in God We Trust" on the edge before refusing to accept the coin. If it isn't there request that the coin be replaced with paper or coins with the inscription