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Learn the New Signs! c. 1965

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This small card was distributed by the Australian Deaf Sports Federation, from around 1965 onwards. It encouraged signers to adopt a standard set of signs for numbers, and also to adopt new signs for DOLLAR and CENT (decimal currency was about to be introduced in 1966).

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RNID Library.

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