[Perform-talk] [stylist] Braille coin not expected to sell

[David Andrews]

I would take this prediction with a grain of salt.  They don't know 
the NFB, and we will keep pushing it until the coin is sold out.  We 
have to sell them all or we don't get the literacy money -- so we will.

Dave

At 01:07 PM 4/14/2009, Donna Hill wrote:
>Hi Friends,
>I found the following article posted 4/13/09 at:
>http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6552
>Two comments follow -- one of them mine.
>Donna Hill
>Block quote
>Readers participating in the April 7 online poll said Braille 
>commemorative silver dollars were not likely to sell out and early 
>reports of sales now seem
>to confirm reader opinions.
>
>As of April 5, there were 42,107 proofs sold and a combined total of 
>28,167 of the uncirculated pieces sold.
>
>This works out to almost 18 percent of the available mintage of 400,000.
>
>At a similar point for the now sold-out Lincoln commemorative silver 
>dollar, sales were running at over 52 percent of the available 
>mintage of 450,000.
>
>Considering the venerable place that Lincoln holds in the hearts of 
>collectors perhaps this result is not surprising. However, the 
>Braille coin will has
>a lower mintage ceiling of 400,000 as compared to 500,000 for 
>Lincoln (including 50,000 in a yet to be issued special set).
>
>Results of course can change over time, but the usual pattern of 
>sales is for the strongest surge to occur at the beginning of a 
>program while they can
>be purchased at the lowest prices.
>
>Comments
>On April 13, 2009 Edac2 saidCould it be because this is one of the 
>stupidest-looking coins the mint has ever produced? Just saying.
>
>On April 14, 2009 Donna Hill saidPerhaps, it's because people don't 
>realize that we are in a desperate Braille literacy crisis. Only 10% 
>of America's blind
>kids (down from 50% in the '60s) are taught to read & write Braille, 
>still the only tool offering true literacy to blind people on a par 
>with print. It
>affects you, because it results in lower employment of blind adults 
>& the need for tax-payer support of intelligent and willing people. 
>Seventy percent
>of working-age, blind adults are unemployed. Of the thirty percent 
>who work, ninety percent read Braille.  The coin supports the 
>Braille Readers are Leaders"
>campaign of the National Federation of the Blind, which seeks to 
>double the number of blind kids learning Braille by 2015.
>
>Please, help us.
>www.usmint.gov
>Braille Readers are Leaders campaign:
>http://www.nfb.org/nfb/Braille_Initiative.asp
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