Donation Dollars

The Royal Australian Mint has begun producing what it calls "Donation Dollars" - $1 coins with a message to donate it to charity.

Royal Australian Mint releases 'donation dollar' coin designed to be given to charitable cause

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The Royal Australian Mint calls it the "donation dollar" — a specially made $1 coin that it hopes people will give away. The Mint has begun pressing 25 million of the charitable coins — about one for every Australian — in a bid to boost the country's flagging levels of philanthropy. The special coin has a green centre with a gold ripple design, symbolising the ongoing, positive repercussions that each donation can make. It is also the first Australian $1 coin to feature a colour other than gold. Mint chief executive Ross MacDiarmid said he wanted Australians to notice the distinctive design when they picked it up, and think about who most needed the dollar. "Hopefully, they will look at the message that is being conveyed on that coin and they will look to donate it," he said. That message is embossed around the green centre: "give to help others".

I'm a little bit skeptical. If we're supposed to give it to charity, how is it supposed to get into our hands in the first place? Surely it has to be spent at a shop in order to be given back as change. Myself, I haven't used cash all year, so there's just no way I'd ever get one of these anyway. I don't see the point.

What about you? If you hypothetically came across one of these coins, would you spend it or donate it?

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