New quarters now out from the US Mint

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Oh ok. I thought I remembered some companies complaining about having to retool vending machines, but maybe it was some other type of machinery.

And we also tend to think we have to make the dollar coin large and heavy when there is no reason it can’t be a light, smaller coin. I still recall the Eisenhower dollars and wonder if anyone ever really expected people to carry them.

It was actually pretty easy. Most vending machine operators were already tooled for Susan B Anthony dollars, which are fully interchangeable with the current dollar coins. That's the easy part. The hard part is that the dollar bill is still in circulation.

https://rollcall.com/2011/04/19/coalition-again-attempts-to-put-dollar-bill-out-of-business/

Heck - once I was on the street and saw a woman who seemed perturbed that she had a dollar bill and needed to feed a parking meter. I offered her a dollar coin I had in my pocket in exchange. The meter took them, but I think it was only good for a half hour.