[optacon-l] Re: Reading U.S. Currency Lesson One
- From: "Mark Blier" <mblier@xxxxxxx>
- To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:28:30 -0700
Hi, All,
When reading currency, I just turn on Invert, and look in a corner to find
something legible -- I don't care if it is a word or a digit. All I want to
know is the denomination of the bill, and I do not want to have to spend a lot
of time figuring it out. One can go nuts by turning the bill this way and that
way in order to find the lower righthand corner of the back side just to be
able to say that you read the clearest number. I don't think I have all that
time to waste.
Mark Blier
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From: "Catherine Thomas" <braille@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <optacon-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2009 8:30 AM
Subject: [optacon-l] Reading U.S. Currency Lesson One
Hi, everyone,
I spent in informative half hour with my reader yesterday examining the
various denominations of U.S. bills or at least the ones, fives, tens and
twenties. Below is some general information which may help you to be able
to read the bills. Also, if you asked 100 sighted people who use the bills
every day, I bet none of them could tell you off-hand the information in
this message.
PICTURES:
U.S. bills have pictures on both sides but not the same picture. Each
denomination has a picture of a President on one side and something else
on the other.
The names of the Presidents are black-onwhite but in each denomination
they are located in a slightly different place and position.
On the dollar bill the president is Washington and on the back is no
picture but instead a very large ONE.
On the five dollar bill, the President is Lincoln and on the back is the
Lincoln Memorial.
On the ten The President is actually Hamilton and the back picture is the
U.S. Treasury building.
On the twenty, the President is Jackson and the back picture is the White
House.
On all denominations, in all four corners on both surfaces (except for one
corner on the twenty), there is the denomination written in digits.
However, these eight renderings on each bill are not identical. The best
one on all the denominations is on the non-President side in the lower
right-hand corner. it's black and clear.
At the top of all the bills on the President side in white (as opposed to
black" lettering is "federal Reserve Note.
Near the bottom of each denomination is its value written in words. I
forget off-hand which color this print is, but I think it's somewhat
white.
On the one dollar bill in each of the eight corners where the 1 is
located, the number 1 is crossed by the word ONE. Both of these can be
read on invert.
The President pictures with the names in black are in more or less the
middle of the left-hand protion of the bill.
As we all try some of these things in hopes that we can make use of any of
them, it's no wonder that the bills are tough to read. Let us hear the
results of any experiments that you try based on this information. The
names of the pictures on the non-President side are too dim to read easily
even with sight. You can also look for In God We Trust near the top
somewhere, also rather hard to read.
I think the best hope might be that black number in a particular bottom
right corner. That's the one I plan to experiment with first for myself.
Catherine
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