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DALLAS — Officials unveiled the prototype of the first U.S. coin with readable Braille characters Wednesday — a silver dollar commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Louis Braille, the creator of the alphabet for the blind.
The coin’s display opened the National Federation of the Blind’s annual convention in Dallas. U.S. Mint director Ed Moy, federation president Marc Maurer and U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions revealed the design of the 2009 Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar in front of about 1,000 people at an outdoor plaza.
