Never rejection by the public that is this complete,” and “there is no way to overestimate how badly that coin was received” (Greene). The United States Mint reported that while “there may have been other disasters like this in the history of our nation’s currency,” there had never been “anything this bad. It was evident that the series was a complete failure. Unfortunately, the coin was a total flop, and demand remained low in 1980 even though the total combined mintage was dropped to 89,660,708 pieces.
In preparation for the assumed massive demand, a combined total of 757,813,744 coins were struck for circulation that first year at the Philadelphia, Denver, and San Francisco facilities. The new dollar coin depicted the eponymous American suffragette and was the first United States circulation strike coin to feature a historically real woman. Anthony dollar, the small clad dollar was released with a great amount of fanfare. In 1979, one year prior to the issue of the 1980-D Susan B.
