diff --git a/src/main.h b/src/main.h
index 666a1293c..155ad413d 100644
--- a/src/main.h
+++ b/src/main.h
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static const unsigned int BLOCKFILE_CHUNK_SIZE = 0x1000000; // 16 MiB
 /** The pre-allocation chunk size for rev?????.dat files (since 0.8) */
 static const unsigned int UNDOFILE_CHUNK_SIZE = 0x100000; // 1 MiB
 /** Dust Soft Limit, allowed with additional fee per output */
-static const int64_t DUST_SOFT_LIMIT = 100000000;
+static const int64_t DUST_SOFT_LIMIT = COIN;
 /** Dust Hard Limit, ignored as wallet inputs (mininput default) */
 static const int64_t DUST_HARD_LIMIT = 1000000;
 /** Coinbase transaction outputs can only be spent after this number of new blocks (network rule) */
diff --git a/src/wallet.cpp b/src/wallet.cpp
index c6bb835e5..a4327f7b3 100644
--- a/src/wallet.cpp
+++ b/src/wallet.cpp
@@ -1226,8 +1226,9 @@ bool CWallet::SelectCoinsMinConf(int64_t nTargetValue, int nConfMine, int nConfT
             nValueRet += coin.first;
             return true;
         }
-        else if (n < nTargetValue + COIN)
+        else if (n < nTargetValue + DUST_SOFT_LIMIT)
         {
+            // Skip coins which, if used, would result in less than a transaction fee in change
             vValue.push_back(coin);
             nTotalLower += n;
         }