Either we're thinking of different coins, or we perceive colors differently. The coins I'm thinking of are the ones you get when you're unfortunate enough to buy a stamp from the automated stamp machines at the post office, and all you have are twenty dollar bills. You end up with nineteen dollar coins. They're slightly yellower in color than the quarters, but only on the edges or when held at an angle in certain lights.
It can't be just me because cashiers have accidentally given them to me in change, and have thought I'd handed them a dollar in quarters when I gave them four dollars in dollar coins.
Also, not everyone can see the color, bright gold, slightly gold tinged, or whatever. and the tiny bit of angling around the edges quickly wears down, so discerning that the difference between them and quarters by touch isn't all that easy, either.
To me, it's telling that although the dollar coins have been around for years, the only place which I've known to use them regularly is the post office. And a lot of stores won't take them in payment, regardless of the fact that the law says they must.
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It can't be just me because cashiers have accidentally given them to me in change, and have thought I'd handed them a dollar in quarters when I gave them four dollars in dollar coins.
Also, not everyone can see the color, bright gold, slightly gold tinged, or whatever. and the tiny bit of angling around the edges quickly wears down, so discerning that the difference between them and quarters by touch isn't all that easy, either.
To me, it's telling that although the dollar coins have been around for years, the only place which I've known to use them regularly is the post office. And a lot of stores won't take them in payment, regardless of the fact that the law says they must.