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We have the loonie, the U.S. gets ‘Sacagawea dollar’ - The Windsor Star
May 16 at 8:08pm
Do enough cross-border shopping, and you just might encounter a loonie of a different nationality: The gold-coloured U.S. dollar coin.
“Basically, these coins are there to co-exist with the dollar notes,” said Greg Hernandez, a spokesman for the United States Mint.
“We tell people that in certain everyday transactions, the dollar coin seems to work best. For instance: mass transit, a cup of coffee, a newspaper, laundromat, drive-thru car washes.”
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