The Buck Starts Here
The U.S. Mint performed some neat tricks to make a golden dollar
By Corinna Wu
Poor Susan B. Anthony. A pioneering 19th-century advocate of women’s rights, she suffered the misfortune of having her stalwart visage stamped on a wildly unpopular U.S. coin. Because the Susan B. Anthony dollar looks confusingly like a quarter, it never won the public’s acceptance.
Now, 21 years after its introduction, the Susan B. Anthony is about to retire. On Jan. 27, the United States Mint shipped new golden dollar coins simultaneously to Federal Reserve Banks and the discount megastore Wal-Mart. Last month, the mint began an advertising campaign to introduce the coin to the public.