All Headline News, DC Wednesday, March 01, 2006 House Approves Coin To 
Commemorate Braille By Denise Royal March 1, 2006 12:30 p.m. EST Washington 
D.C. (AHN) - Louis Braille, the inventor of the most widely used reading and 
writing method for the blind, will be featured on a commemorative U.S. 
silver dollar. Under a House bill passed Tuesday, the U.S. Mint will issue 
400,000 silver dollars commemorating Braille in 2009, the bicentennial of 
his birth.

Funds raised from a $10 surcharge will go to the National Federation of the 
Blind to promote Braille literacy. The front of the coin would depict 
Braille, and the reverse would include the word "Braille" written in Braille 
code. Braille, born outside Paris on Jan. 4, 1809, lost his sight in a 
childhood accident.

He later built on a nighttime code used by the French Army to create the 
pattern of raised dots that is named after him.

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7002609917
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