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

[Marsha]

Hi
   Two things.  A good solution would be to go back to making change by 
counting up.  This is much more accurate and will tell us which bills are 
which.

Marsha


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "T. Joseph Carter" <tjosephcarter at gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [nfb-talk] Accessible currency in the best interest ofthe 
blind?


Bonnie,

It could be done in such a way that you'd never want to do that--the
dollar bill would have four corners clipped.  Others would have fewer and
in such a pattern that you couldn't really make a blind person think the
value was higher than it is.

Joseph

On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 06:53:15AM -0500, Bonnie Ainsworth wrote:
> 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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