Lead Photos

Lead Photos

Braille Monitor
May 2009

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Precisely at noon on March 26, 2009, the United States Mint began selling the Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar. Some minutes before that hour those who attended the official roll-out of the coin at the headquarters of the National Federation of the Blind began lining up to buy coins in Members’ Hall. The first purchasers were lucky enough to have their certificates of authentication initialed by the director of the Mint.

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