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Helen Keller Quarter Dollar
COINS AND MEDALS
coin
United States Mint; Flanagan, John; Cousins, William; Nemeth, Norman E.
North America: USA
2003
copper nickel
overall: 24.3 mm

Commemorative coin (posthumous) in struck copper-nickel. Value one quarter US dollar. Obverse: Nude bust facing to left. Reverse: Between an Alabama long leaf pine branch and magnolia spray, the blind campaigner Helen Keller seated in a high backed chair three-quarters to right, a 'Spirit of Courage' banner along her knees and a four parallel line inscription featuring Helen Keller's name twice, the first two lines of which are in Grade 2 (shorthand) Braille script.


2011.187

Gift of Dr Jay Galst, MD, 2011



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