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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;AuSgPtHoarder, post: 731821, member: 9817&quot;]I&#039;ve been trying to formulate my opinion on the Braille dollar for awhile now.&nbsp; I have an aunt who lost her sight as a teenager (60+ years ago), and we had talked about it and the idea of Braille money as well.&nbsp; Her opinion was that she hasn&#039;t dealt with money herself in so long, she doesn&#039;t care whether they make audio-enabled cash <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> But I really do think there should be something done with cash to enable blind people to handle it themselves.&nbsp; Probably won&#039;t happen since plastic seems to be the way of the future (increasing prices on everything by 1-2% because of processing fees - the reason I use cash money as much as possible.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyhow, here&#039;s my long-winded thoughts on top of long-winded thoughts:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>1) The commemoratives rarely do much of anything in terms of value appreciation.&nbsp; There&#039;s been a couple in the 90&#039;s, but really, they&#039;re fairly stable from the time they come out.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>2) Part of the reason for that is that they seem to have the right mintage number down, where there&#039;s enough to go around, but not so many that they don&#039;t maximize profits for the mint and the contribution for whatever the cause is.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>3) #2 being said, if this one doesn&#039;t sell out, it&#039;ll rank on the lower end of commemorative mintage in recent years.&nbsp; That word gets out, and eventually it might give it a little pop...but probably not much</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>4) I considered this as well...its the Braille dollar, even being sold in an option with an easy-open capsule.&nbsp; Certainly, a portion of these are being bought by or for a blind person, who is likely going to want to feel the coin.&nbsp; Feeling UNC and Proof coinage generally doesn&#039;t help its grade ; )&nbsp; So the top population may be additionally shrunk. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>5) Referring to #4 - so by how much?&nbsp; Well, everyone seems to be referring to the coin as unattractive, probably why it hasn&#039;t sold much, even though it has the same mintage limit and silver content as the Lincoln, so it could be a fairly significant number which are shipping to blind people (100,000 sent to blind people who read Braille and want to touch the coin wouldn&#039;t shock me at all, especially since many of them, even if non-collectors, would be more likely to have heard about the coin.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyhow, I almost passed it up, and for the past few years, I&#039;ve been getting at least one of each commemorative, sometimes bunches (a big box o&#039; Bald Eagles, and a little stack of Lincolns, because I really loved both of those).&nbsp; Thinking about it more, I think its time to go ahead and order 2 each, proof and unc.&nbsp; 1 each for the collection, and 1 each &quot;just in case&quot; there&#039;s some signficant value.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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