Perhaps numismatists and politicians have learned that no dollar coin in the United States will be successful unless the dollar bill is retired from production – precisely why the Susan B. But most Americans instead clung to their paper money, and by 2002 it was evident that the Sacagawea dollar was doomed to repeat the fate of the Susan B. In the year 2000, hopes were high that the public would embrace the new Sacagawea dollar and use it instead of the dollar bill. Anthony dollar initially ended, the United States has yet to see a truly successful circulating dollar coin series. In the 35 years since production of the Susan B. In 2016, we mark 35 years since the original run of the Susan B. Anthony dollars were struck from 1979 through 1981, and then once more in 1999 to supplement a dwindling supply of dollar coins that were mainly being used in mass transit vending machines and stamp machines at United States Postal Service facilities around the nation. Anthony dollars way back when usually regard them as little more than novelty items. Those who are younger or simply didn't pay attention to Susan B.
Anthony dollars were originally struck, largely remember them as a failed attempt to introduce a dollar coin into widespread circulation. The collectors who were around in the late 1970s and early 1980s, when Susan B. Anthony dollars in coin collecting circles. You don't really hear much about Susan B.
