In a recent message "Bruce Remick" <remick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> "Tony Clayton" <tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:49bce6a24f%tony@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > In a recent message "Bruce Remick" <remick@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "Jon Purkey" <room321_email@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> >> news:ikp634hof77ik7jc92br1dfkgvd8u3897k@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> > On Tue, 20 May 2008 14:10:54 -0700 (PDT), RF <fwdixon@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080520/ap_on_go_ot/blind_money
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Just eliminate all bills and switch entirely to coins. :)
> >> >
> >> > Seriously, it seems the Treasury Department could add some sort of
> >> > raised lettering without significantly increasing the cost of
> >> > production. Even small holes could be felt by many blind people.
Just
> >> > punch the holes when cutting the notes.
> >>
> >> Can't you just see the amateur counterfeiters drooling over that?
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Changing the size of the notes would require too many other changes
> >> > such as vending machines, money counting machines, the size of the
> >> > slots in cash registers, etc.
> >>
> >> You're leaving yourself wide open to the "they do it in other
> >> countries....." argument.
> >
> > Which they do to make it easy for the blind or partially sighted
> > in the UK.
> >
> > Even our booklets of stamps have one or two notches to make it
> > easy to distinguish first and second class stamps.
>
> Clever idea. Never thought about that. Though in the US, we have
stamps
> with many different denominations... and sizes. If there are any
inherent
> features that aid a blind person to identify all US first class 42¢
stamps,
> they have not been well publicized.
>
> I found it took about a week in the UK or so to get used arranging
currency
> in my wallet so the small ones wouldn't get lost in between the larger
ones.
> Probably because of my initial unfamiliarity with the money, I also
ended up
> with tons more change in my pocket at the end of the day than I do at
home.
No. That is just a symptom of the fact that we use coin more extensively
in the UK.
In the US there are only three effective denominations (5c, 10c & 25c).
The 1c is
discarded and the $1 hardly circulates.
In the UK we use coins of £2, £1, 50p, 20p, 10p, and 5p, with 1p and 2p
coming
in the same category as the cent, making six effective denominations up to
a coin worth about $4.
--
Tony Clayton tony.clayton.1962@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
of the UK : http://www.coins-of-the-uk.co.uk
Sent using RISCOS on an Acorn Strong Arm RiscPC
.... I am not young enough to know everything.
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