How does a blind person identify money?
Coins such as nickels, pennies, dimes, and quarters are easy to tell apart because they are different sizes. Quarters and dimes have ridges around them, while pennies and nickels are smooth. There are many ways that paper money can be identified. Some blind people like to keep different bills in separate places in their wallets. The most common way to tell paper money apart is to fold the bills in different ways. Maybe a five dollar bill is folded in half the long way, and a ten dollar bill is folded in half the short way or folded twice. A one dollar bill might not be folded at all. When they get money back from someone, they may ask which bill is which and then fold it. Source: http://www.nfb.org/kids.
Coins such as nickels, pennies, dimes, and quarters are easy to tell apart. They all are different sizes, and quarters and dimes have ridges around them, while pennies and nickels are smooth. There are many ways that paper money-like one, five, ten, or twenty dollar bills-can be identified. Some blind people like to keep different bills in separate places in their wallets, especially if it is a larger bill that they perhaps do not often carry with them. The most common way to tell paper money apart is to fold the bills in different ways. Each person will have his or her own way of folding them; there is no standard for everyone. Maybe a five dollar bill is folded in half the long way, and a ten dollar bill is folded in half the short way. Or maybe the ten is folded twice. A one dollar bill might be folded one way or not folded at all. Or maybe a twenty dollar bill is folded in fourths or not at all. Everyone uses his or her own methods. When we get money back from someone else, we ask
