Surely I can’t be the only one who find irony in the U.S. Mint announcing a coin that has Braille on it by unveiling a big picture of it at the National Federation of the Blind‘s annual convention?
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#1 by william kurtz on July 3rd, 2008
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first off all who the goverment deam as blind are not totaly blind second of all perhaps the pictures were not for the blind as there are supporters and media who were also there and for the people who could not “see” the pictures the us mint also had a prototype coin that they let anyone hold after the opening cermonies at the general assembialy
#2 by Brad on July 3rd, 2008
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Thanks. It’s called “humour”. You’ve just gone and explained all the fun out of it. :-(