Fed Reserves overstocked on the Coin Standard

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So...it seems to me that people are willing to use dollar coins but the system in place for distributing them is utterly retarded and requires people to go out of their way and order them over the internet.

Is there not a way to get them into regular circulation? Making post offices give change in dollar coins or the like?

The idea of a dollar note always struck me as a bit mad. Hell, the Swedish 20 sek note was daft enough. Even the UK 5 pound isn`t worth what it used to be even 10 years ago and we should be looking towards (properly) turning it into a coin.

Pennies are still needed to make change in commerce, stores, etc.

In several European countries IIRC they don`t have euro coins up to....5 cents? or was it 10 even? They just round to the nearest one they do have coins for.
Hell, even in Sweden I remember seeing things that cost 49.90 even though the only ore coin was the 50.

There's already 5 pound coins but there still only commemorative issues, so it would be daft to use them for their denomination.

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Strippers get pissed when you stuff dollar coins in their g-strings.  Especially when you put them in the freezer first...

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Strippers get pissed when you stuff dollar coins in their g-strings.  Especially when you put them in the freezer first...

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Apart from that, the basic problem is that it's more of garbage now than an actual legal tender, and that imposes costs of their own.  Who actually carries pennies with them anymore?  Everyone I know filters them out and puts them in a bottle or something of that nature.

I'm guessing you've now reached the point in the US where you can't actually buy anything for just one cent ? 

IIRC that was the major reason for withdrawing our 1/2 penny a good few years ago, once you could buy haf'penny sweets so the coin had a use until those went up to 1p each.  Incidentally I'd guess those sort of traditional sweets/'penny chews' probably cost 2 or 4 pence each. 

Pennies are still needed to make change in commerce, stores, etc.

Why?  We don't use mils anymore.

What were mils ?