Cold hard cash

Cold hard cash

Today the House of Representatives passed a bill to authorize the creation of a new one dollar coin. This coin will be a little different from the last two attempts, the ill-fated Susan B. Anthony dollar and the largely ignored Sacajawea dollar of 1999. Perhaps the third time will be the charm, since these new coins will follow the pattern of the very successful State Quarters series. The new coins will be released four per year starting in 2007. They will feature the visages of each President of the United States from Washington until the current President in the final run of the coins in 2018.

More information is available at CNN.