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  • Braille Coin Approved

    03/04/2006 8:58:20 AM PST · by Cagey · 43 replies · 612+ views
    WPVI TV NEWS ^ | 3-3-2006
    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...