1.   And until last autumn, the Democratic majority in Congress kept locked up in committee a bill to create a dollar coin.

2.   Are we really to take offense at the image of Sacajawea on the new dollar coin?

3.   A Congress-appointed committee met Monday and Tuesday in Philadelphia, and after much polite debate, decided which famous female will adorn the new dollar coin.

4.   According to legend, it was nearby that young George Washington flung a dollar coin across the Potomac River.

5.   After much reluctance, Congress, a body jealous about its currency prerogatives, finally approved another attempt at a dollar coin.

6.   But a group of senators wants a dollar coin that depicts a woman or women of historical significance.

7.   Businesses that make and sell coin-operated equipment say a dollar coin would mean big savings to them.

8.   But the penny has fallen out of fashion, having been replaced by dollar coins that look like quarters and hundred-dollar bills that look like Monopoly money.

9.   Coin coalition propagandists said the Eisenhower dollar coin flopped because it was too big.

10.   Congress plans hearings this spring to determine if the dollar bill should be replaced by a dollar coin.