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

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

Not only that, corners are more apt to get torn and get cought in
machines.  
I do not want to have to stand there and feal every corner to identify
each bill.  How slow!  Either make them different lengths and or
different colors or just leave the money the way it is!  
We have been able to handle it this way for many a year, why change it
now?  
There are a lot higher priorities in my mind.

Terry Powers



-----Original Message-----
From: Bonnie Ainsworth [mailto:cedarwoman1965 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, May 17, 2008 7:53 AM
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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Accessible currency in the best interest ofthe
blind?

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>
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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. 

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