Braille Coin

I think it would be easy to do. Coins are one thing paper is another. Just curious!

Ive seen blind people and somehow they can distinguish what bill is what. I'm surprised there isn't a lawsuit for this.

2009-01-16 14:48:58 by johnnyraycole

The inner part of the coin depicts a hand reading an open book by touch. Above the index finger, which is pointing at the vertical inscription ...

The year is 2009. Although he was a Frenchman born two hundred years ago (and blinded at age three), the United States mint is making a coin to commemorate Louis Braille, the inventor of blind people's reading/writing system. Here's how it will look like an be released in late March.

http://www.coinnews.net/wp-content/image s/2009/Proof-Louis-Braille-Silver-Dollar -Coin.jpg

I think it looks pretty cool because it is unique and I have never seen it before.

2009-03-14 15:57:14 by サミュエルくん

what is the best coin 2 collect this year....the lincoln silver dollar or the braille silver dollar?????

and what is a better coin grading company...PCGS OR NGC ???...PLEASE ANSWER

Check the mintage figures and go for the lowest. That is usually the uncirculated version. Numismatic News and Coin World list mintage figures for new products sometimes. They are weekly coin magazines and most coin dealers have them. Also keep an eye on the prices dealers get for the items. I would say the Braille uncirculated dollar would have the lowest mintage. PCGS as well as NGC are the 2 top grading services but at least for now a lot of dealers like PCGS the best. That could change in the future.

2009-06-21 18:37:26 by DARKKNIGHT

Unc Commemorative Dollar
90% Silver
Original US Mint Packaging

Ive put it on photo bucket, I cant quite figure out what it is....Looks Asian for all I know. Coin is from 1996, and also has a 50 on it + braille.
1 side: http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt105 /jeremyh67/HPIM0918.jpg
Other side:
http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt105 /jeremyh67/HPIM0919.jpg

It is a 1996 Taiwan 50 Yuan, and it is worth $5.75US if uncirculated. I hope that helps.

2009-10-07 20:54:16 by Jeremy

if something cost 5.95, and she handed a woman a dollar, and .95 9because it is easier to feel coins than dollar bills), how would this play out, and if not, Should the U.S. Gov't print out "Braille" bills? bills with holes punched in them for easy knowledge of denomination?

A friend of mine is blind...and he's got a neat trick that he said he's been doing for years...and it was also in that Ben Affleck movie....based on some comic or something...

Anyway...he has a very trusting person...sometimes it's a bank employee...sometimes a family member or trusted friend fold the various bills in different ways...1's were folded in half, 5's were folded in half 90 degrees opposite...10's were diagonal and so forth. He has to very carefully place things in his wallet and be sure not to be too rough, but for him, it's worked great. He also has the advantage of not being completely totally blind...so if he holds the bill close enough in bright light, he can make enough out of what it is.

The acceptance of debit/credit cards for everything has pretty much eliminated this problem. He also told me once this is the reason ATM's only give out 20's...so a blind person could use the ATM and know the bills were all the same. He uses cash less.

They also have hand-held bill-readers that will read off what bill it is.

The thing about the current bills is that the mint designed them to be durable and last a while, the less often you have to replace them, the cheaper it is to manufacture them in the first place, and that's not for the bill itself...but due to the anti-counterfitting features...EVERY feature of the bill has to hold on. The problem with the braille bill design is it compromises the durability of the bill...obviously if you've got holes in the bill already, that creates an area that'll tear easily. Likewise, embossing doesn't hold up for very long. It's the same reason they never put holograms on money to prevent counterfitting...the hologram is useless the first time it's folded or wadded up.

2009-08-22 16:33:11 by Sweater Kitteh