Sacagawea Resolution Bloggers Challenge
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. If you like the Sacagawea Dollar, please, link to this post (or to another Sacagawea Resolution post) and resolve to do the same. If enough people do this, maybe this woefully ignored coin will come into fashion.
In order to heighten the coolness factor, I'm going to mark all my Sacagaweas with a Sharpie marker. This will rub off very quickly, but I also encourage other bloggers to do the same. If you spend a Sacagawea, mark it with a Sharpie. If you get a Sacagawea with a Sharpie mark on it, chances are it was circulated by a fellow blogger!
To start, I plan to purchase a roll of Sacagawea coins (they come in $25 rolls) and mark mine by simply running the Sharpie along the edge of the stack in a few places. Let me know if you get one of mine!
Watch for Sacagawea-blogging throughout '04.
UPDATE: Shot In The Dark Blogger Mitch Berg has taken the Sacagawea Challenge! And he's already ahead of Boviosity. A comment at his site raises an issue that I've already thought about - Sacagawea sinks. I'll struggle not to put my Sacagaweas into closed systems like the US Post Office, which gives the dollars in change.
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Boviosity: Putting Sharpie ink in your $!@#% pockets since 2004.
If you look at it just right (or wrong), Sacagawea looks like a two-headed lady, with the second head belonging to her vestigial twin brother.
These coins, as well as the hatchet-faced Susan B. Anthony dollars, are ejected into circulation as change when you buy stamps from the machine at the post office. Somehow they wind up back in government hands and back in the stamp machine again. You should not simply put them into circulation: try to spend them at unusual shops where they might be given back out as change instead of being handed over to the feds.
Posted by: Chris Jones | January 6, 2004 01:07 PM
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Truth be told, I considered recommending running a sharp instrument along the edge of the stack, so if you got a coin with a little chip out of it it's a Blogger-Sacagawea(tm). Then I decided I didn't want John Ashcroft and his Secret Service Rethuglicans to go all Patriot Act on my ass.
Posted by: Brian Jones | January 6, 2004 03:33 PM
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I'm opposed to the Sacagawea dollar. Or any dollar coin for that matter. I mean, how are you gonna tip a stripper with that thing?
Posted by: Guy Smilee | January 6, 2004 04:56 PM
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Oh, there are ways my friend...there ARE ways.
Posted by: Chris Jones | January 6, 2004 10:37 PM
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Tell it, bro.
Guy, a little thought experiment: you're up on a table wearing a smile and a G-string, the music is right, and you see two patrons, one waving a dollar bill, and one waving a roll of gold coins.
Up to whom do you shimmy?
Posted by: Brian Jones | January 7, 2004 08:02 AM
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Another thought experiment. Which is going to hurt more when it gets thrown at you?
Posted by: Guy Smilee | January 7, 2004 11:08 AM
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I don't know nuthin' about strippers (heh), but Sacagawea is HOT.
Posted by: Joe Martin | January 7, 2004 11:32 AM
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She's no Hillary, though.
Posted by: Chris Jones | January 7, 2004 12:16 PM
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P.S. On the thought experiment, since you threw it out there, I would execute my patented Mega Ham Quake to freeze the gold coin guy in place, swoop by the other guy to scoop up the dollar bill, then return to Mr. Gold.
Posted by: Chris Jones | January 8, 2004 04:22 PM
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