[nfb-talk] Accessible currency in the best interest ofthe blind?

[Bonnie Ainsworth]

My argument against cutting corners on dollar bills is that people who are 
sick enough to mess with currency wouldn't hesitate to cut off the corners. 
As I see it, no system would be full proof.

Bonnie

Daddy, why doesn't this magnet pick up this floppy?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Meskys" <edmeskys at localnet.com>
To: "NFB Talk Mailing List" <nfb-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Accessible currency in the best interest ofthe 
blind?


I agree with Joseph Carter about a slow transition as currency gets
replaced, but instead of making bills different shapes corners can be
clipped, causing no change in cash drawer size or money reading machines.
$100 is unchanged, $50 has one corner clipped, $20 has two corners on a long
edge clipped, $10 on a short edge, and $5 on diagonally opposite corners.
Bring back the /$2 bill with three corners clipped, and replace the $1 bill
with the $1 coin. Or just make the $1 bill clipped on 4 corners. But I
really think it is time to replace the $1 bill with a coin, as in Canada
(which even has a $2 coin) and England, whose #1 coin is worth about $2.