Posted on 03/04/2006 8:58:20 AM PST by Cagey
CAPITOL HILL (AP) - Mar. 3, 2006 - The House has approved a commemorative silver dollar with writing in Braille code.
The House bill calls for 400-thousand silver dollars featuring Louis Braille. He was the inventor of the most widely used reading and writing method for the blind.
The coins, if also approved by the Senate, would come out in 2009, the bicentennial of Braille's birth.
Bill co-sponsor Congressman Bob Ney says blind people "would be far less likely to achieve the goals of independence and productive living" without Braille's work.
The front of the coin depicts the inventor, the reverse includes the word "Braille" written in the code.
Money raised from a ten-dollar surcharge on the coins will go to the National Federation of the Blind to promote Braille literacy.
Isn't the fist one.
Alabama State quarter.
I won't ever be King........(g)
We need a coin for the deaf.
The US mint has WAY too much time on its hands these days.
Dont we already have one. What's wrong with the Golden dollar?
Whats the use in this? Blind guys make better change than than the kid at MC D's.
I always wondered how they did that!?!
Hence the word "unmistakeable." The Sacajawea (sp?) dollar is easy to mistake for a quarter if you're just fishing through your pockets or it's dark or something.
Yes....we do. But seems to me...that they are a bit too close in diameter to a quarter.
Besides that.....not many will use them...unless we eliminate the paper dollar. I've not personally seen one in months and months....
Although I think/hope you knew what I meant.......
Seems to me that a more practical way of honoring Louis Braille - and helping blind people - would be to imprint Braille designations on all bills.
It's fairly easy to tell coins apart by feel, but how to tell bills apart if one can't see them?
Strange, have you noticed that some drive-in teller keys are in Braille?
Bingo - a quarter for every state??? Now that really makes economic sense. But government folks want a legacy - and it usually comes at your and my expense.
The Bill Clinton coin would - oh, never mind.
and bills for the color blind, and in languages of all the world
Indeed we do. Money talks and it's just not fair that the deaf can't hear it.
How about a $1 coin that is actually worth something? 371.25 grains of pure silver, as the Founding Fathers intended.
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