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Article: The Christopher Columbus dollar. (column)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- December 31, 1989
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The Christopher Columbus Dollar There is a bill (HR-1068) which deserves universal backing, and this happens about once every thousand years. It is called the United States Coinage Reform Act of 1989. And what it would do for us is to give us a beautiful metal dollar.
WARNING! We must not, once again, endure the catastrophic experience of dear old Susan B. Anthony. When finally Congress and the Treasury Department issued a dollar coin in 1979, everyone sat back expecting the revolution to happen. The vending-machine merchants invested millions of dollars to refit their equipment. And lo! withn a matter of months, the metal dollar disappeared. Nobody wanted ...