“The ‘mistakes’ you’re referring to are merely an attempt to generate interest in the coin,” writes a rather skeptical reader in response to yesterday’s blurb on “godless” dollar coins. “The government thinks we are stupid.
“They think that maybe if people buy enough of them to find the ‘mistakes,’ they will then use them and forget the trash metal they are made from; forget the pathetic attempt to color every new coin ‘gold’ to make us think they actually have some value, forget the fact that the only way a dollar coin will be accepted is when the dollar bill is withdrawn...
“All in all, these new ‘dollar’ coins represent so many things wrong with our country far better than they represent a store of value or medium of exchange.”
“They think that maybe if people buy enough of them to find the ‘mistakes,’ they will then use them and forget the trash metal they are made from; forget the pathetic attempt to color every new coin ‘gold’ to make us think they actually have some value, forget the fact that the only way a dollar coin will be accepted is when the dollar bill is withdrawn...
“All in all, these new ‘dollar’ coins represent so many things wrong with our country far better than they represent a store of value or medium of exchange.”
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