2009 Louis Braille Bicentennial Silver Dollar

This one-year-only 90% silver Proof celebrates the 200th anniversary of Louis Braille's birth in 1809. Sightless since an accident at age 4, Braille developed a system of raised dots so that sight-impaired people could read.

• Honors Louis Braille, creator of a reading system for the sight-impaired
• Limited-issue Proof with sharp frosted images against deep mirorlike surfaces
• First U.S. coin with readable braille (dots on reverse spell "braille" in abbreviated form)
• Reverse depicts a blind child reading
• In official U.S. Mint display case

Add this popular, limited-issue commemorative silver Proof to your own collection today!