The Sakajawea Revolution

One women, twelve dozen legally-valid spellings...

...and a dollar coin that didn't get its due. At least, not in most of the country.

Brian from Boviosity states an eloquent case for the dollar coin:

I really like the Sacagawea $1 coin.

I'm not into Sacagawea, or Lewis & Clark, or equal rights for women on coins, or saving trees by doing away with $1 bills. I just like it. I think it's practical and beautiful. I was bemoaning its apparent unpopularity with a friend the other day. I was dismayed that, just a few years after it was introduced, I was unable to get any at my bank. My friend challenged me to just go spend some of them if I want them in circulation.

I thought that was a good idea, and now I think I've got a better one.

My New Year's Resolution is to put 100 Sacagawea Dollars into circulation. And I challenge other bloggers to do the same.

You're on Brian. And I have a good start; when I was in New York last month, the New Jersey Transit ticket machines gave all their change in Sakakaweas (the spelling I learned in North Dakota as a kid), and I've been doling them out bit by bit ever since - probably twenty of them.

I'll go looking for more.

Brian's right - the coin is beautiful, well-designed, and just plain feels good.

Viva la Revolucion!

Posted by Mitch at January 6, 2004 06:04 PM