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A portrait of Helen Keller seated in a chair with an open book on her lap will grace Alabama's 2003 State quarter. Keller's name is inscribed in English and Braille to the right of the portrait with "Spirit of Courage" on a ribbon below the chair. The design is bordered on the right by a branch of camellias, Alabama's state flower, and on the left by a branch of needles and cones from the southern longleaf pine. Keller was born June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Ala. Keller will be the seventh actual woman depicted on a U.S. coin. The other six women are: Queen Isabella, Eleanor Dare (with infant daughter Virginia), Susan B. Anthony, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Dolley Madison and Sacagawea. The Alabama quarter dollar will be the first U.S. coin minted for circulation with a Braille inscription.
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