Dollar coin solution

Its never been clear to me why I never see dollar coins in circulation. This story on CNN.com attributes the failure of the Susan B. Anthony dollar to its unpopularity with the public, which never made any sense to me. If the public found it unpopular, how exactly did it express that displeasure? When given change that included dollar coins, were there mass refusals and demands for bills? Did they throw the coins away? Money is money, and when I come across it, I use it, no matter in what form it comes. It seems the Sacagewea coin is meeting the same fate. If I saw more of them in circulation, I would use them. Where are they?

Now, there is a proposal to re-introduce a dollar coin, but in a series that features the presidents in chronological order. I would propose going further and minting coins where each U.S. citizen gets their face on precisely one coin. Sure it would be expensive, but if the goal isn't circulation, but to have people hoarding away coins, then I could conceive of a huge trading system where people would attempt to find their unique coin and even perhaps (maybe especially) those of famous people.

Reasons/ No Reason

One can find the following pair of songs back-to-back on the Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson album Poncho and Lefty:


Reasons To Quit (Merle Haggard)

Reasons to quit the smoke and booze don't do me like before
And I'm hardly ever sober and my old friends don't come around much anymore
Reasons to quit the low is always lower than the high
And the reasons to quit don't out number all the reasons why
So we keep smokin' and we keep drinkin' havin' fun and never thinkin'
Laughin' at the price tags that we pay
And we keep rollin' down the fast lane like two young men feelin' no pain
And the reasons for quittin's gettin' bigger each day

Reasons to quit I can't afford the habit all the time
I need to be sober I need to write some new songs that will rhyme
Reasons to quit they have no rhyme or reason when you're high
And the reasons to quit don't out number all the reasons why
We keep smokin' and we keep drinkin'...
And the reasons for quittin's gettin' bigger each day


No Reason To Quit (Dean Halloway)

There's a circle of people where I'm no longer welcome
I'm ashamed to say that I'm no longer fit
I could sober up tomorrow and face my friends again
But I've got no reason to quit
No I've got no reason for living right and there's no other way to forget
I could sober up tomorrow and face my friends again
But I've got no reason to quit
I've got no reason for living right and there's no other way to forget
I know down deep inside me I'm man enough to change
But I've got no reason to quit