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Forced to make another Mountain Dew purchase after seeing EternalOne drinking a bottle at work again, I headed to the vending machine and discovered I was fresh out of single dollar bills. Fortunately the machine next to the pop machine makes change for $5 bills. For my $5 bill, 5 gold colored coins with John Adams on the front tumbled into the change tray. Fearful of a government conspiracy to rid the world of the Sacagawea dollar I had finally grown to accept, I ran to EternalOne in a panic and showed him my discovery. Unimpressed, he returned to his bottle of Mountain Dew and I consulted the giver of knowledge. Turns out Sacagawea wasn't as popular as the US Mint had hoped in replacing short-life $1 bills with longer-life coins. The success of the state quarters prompted a similar attempt with a presidential $1 coin program. Even though it feels a bit Canadian, I've grown to like dollar coins and was glad to also learn Sacagawea will still make up 1/4 of all dollar coin production for the life of the presidential coin program. And although it's more fun to actually say it, I thought I'd type Sacagawea one last time to make it a nice round total of 4 times for this post.