er quarter... er dollar..oh never mind...The first Susan B Anthony Dollar entered circulation Dec 14 1978. Somewhere along the way, basic design requirements were either ignored or not fully understood.
Its resounding failure stemmed from the fact that in size, color and edge texture it was so indistinguishable from the quarter-dollar. The design originally called for it to be not round, but hendacagonal (11-sided). It is claimed that due protests from vending machine manufacturers, the design of the edges were changed back to round with a reeded edge, without other design changes to compensate.
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