Posted on 12/12/2006 4:36:58 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Today, tens are orange, twenties are green, and fifties are blue and red. They would need to add color to fives and ones and hundreds, but I am assuming that change is already in the pipeline and will show up eventually.
Not in the United States. Within the same series, they are the same color.
2004 $10 front, back.
2004 $20 front, back.
2004 $50 front, back.
Maybe I'm dense, but how are BLIND people going to tell the color difference in paper money?
Also, I do believe this could be phased in, but I am totally against a federal judge legislating from ther bench and telling Congress how to conduct business.
Well this is true.. I just think it's funny that the lack of color difference is cited as a problem in all of these articles.
I think they're talking about visually impaired (but not completely blind) people also, which would make some sense. Some of these articles also claim that large digits should be put on the currency since they are not there now. I guess they have not seen the 20 or 50 lately.
I like the idea of putting braille on the currency. I wonder how easy it would be to abuse though (could I just put some extra indentations in the currency and pass a bill off to a blind person as something it's not? I'm not familiar enough with braille to know.)
Actually, this does not get the prize for dumb idea of the decade. At least in the accomodations for the blind, I still hold the most useless is braille bumps at drive through ATMs. Started seeing this a few years ago, all of them have this worthwhile feature now.
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