NewsTalk 1280 WGBF » currency http://newstalk1280.com Tue, 21 May 2013 04:22:50 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Get Rich Quick! A Billion Dollars in Loose Change Is Just Waiting For You http://newstalk1280.com/get-rich-quick-a-billion-dollars-in-loose-change-is-just-waiting-for-you/ http://newstalk1280.com/get-rich-quick-a-billion-dollars-in-loose-change-is-just-waiting-for-you/#comments Wed, 29 Jun 2011 16:46:03 +0000 Shauna Wright http://tsminteractive.com/?p=20585 With all the talk of how broke the US government is, you might be surprised to learn there’s over a billion one-dollar coins sitting unused in Federal Reserve vaults. And the US Mint is still cranking them out.

NPR’s Planet Money and Investigations teams found that the coins are the wasteful byproducts of a failed congressional effort to get Americans to use them in everyday commerce.

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