{"id":2856,"date":"2008-07-11T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-aboutdisabilities.pantheonsite.io\/?p=2856"},"modified":"2008-07-11T14:28:44","modified_gmt":"2008-07-11T21:28:44","slug":"first-us-braille-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/?p=2856","title":{"rendered":"First US Braille Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The day before the nation\u2019s independence day (not ours on July 26) the US Mint unveiled a new bicentennial silver dollar celebrating the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille\u2019s birth. The <a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=314\">picture<\/a> at Language Log shows a rather large, copper colored, coin with a four braille characters spelling Brl, short for Braille, and a relief of a young braille reader studying at a table. Detailed drawings of the 2009 coin can be found on the US Mint site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmint.gov\/downloads\/pressroom\/2009LouisBrailleObv.jpg\">obverse<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmint.gov\/downloads\/pressroom\/2009LouisBrailleRev.jpg\">reverse<\/a> views.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The coolest thing about the coin, besides that it\u2019s the first official US tactile money, is the book case behind the young scholar. It\u2019s labeled \u201cIndependence.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t the first recognition of disability by the US Mint. The 2003 Alabama state quarter has Helen Keller (along with tiny braille characters). It\u2019s interesting that this coin was announced at a National Federation of the Blind annual convention. I\u2019m impressed that a disability-centric organization was recognized.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The day before the nation\u2019s independence day (not ours on July 26) the US Mint unveiled a new bicentennial silver dollar celebrating the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille\u2019s birth. The picture at Language Log shows a rather large, copper colored, coin with a four braille characters spelling Brl, short for Braille, and a relief of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/?p=2856\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aboutdisability.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}