Yes, and no. Cause and effect is a little blurry here. I have a friend who is a bank manager. When the golden dollars came out I asked him if we could get some and he said I would have to find a bank that would carry them. His would not.*because* customers would get a few as a curiosity but, in general, refuse to use them or take them as change at the bank windows. The end result for the bank was that they had to get a minimum order from the federal reserve bank, and since they gave some out, couldn't return the remainder. That, in turn, resulted in the bank having a fair amount of vault space taken up, for years at a time, by coins their customers didn't want. For him, it just wasn't worth the hassle when, obviously, it was a product none of their customers, retailers or private citizens, wanted.