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Visiting the Philadelphia Mint

Tom — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:35:42 +0000

For the last 25 years, I could have so many opportunities to visit the Philadelphia Mint, especially when I lived in Washington DC and it was just a short train ride away. For some reason, it just never happened, I always concentrated on other things during my travels. But I have to say, it was …

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3D printing a replica of the Helen Keller Quarter

Tom — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:32:53 +0000

Collecting coins without any vision has a major disadvantage: it is hard to tell what exactly is on a coin, as it is hard to feel the details. One can feel where there is writing, a head, a building, an animal, etc. But the minor details are too small for touch, which applies to most …

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The guide dog who visited the most money museums

Tom — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:54:33 +0000

From 2014 until about 2022, I was traveling with my guide dog, Baldwin. He has been to 12 money museums, in 6 countries and 11 cities. On October 20th, at the age of 13, he died. While it is not a blog about my guide dog, I still felt appropriate to post this, since many …

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Mint Museum in Madrid, museo casa de la moneda

Tom — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 11:14:03 +0000

I was wrapping up a conference in Spain and I had a few extra hours in Madrid. Without a doubt, I knew that if I’ll have time for one more thing, it will be the Mint Museum, Museo Casa de la Moneda. Given that still most money museums are still not accessible, generally I make …

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Tactile marks on currencies

Tom — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 23:11:31 +0000

Tactile marks on currencies This post is primarily created to help blind people who travel to a different country and would like a quick reference on how to recognize the local currencies. There is of course currency recognition apps which one can use, here I will only concentrate on currencies, which do have tactile features. …

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The Bank of Canada Museum

Tom — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 13:06:17 +0000

A few days after my presentation about accessible coin exhibits, I got a call from the Bank of Canada Museum, which was previously called the Currency Museum, to enquire about my presentation, and it turned into an on-site visit. I spent a day with the museum’s employees where we discussed my ideas about accessible exhibits, …

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Recognizing coins with artificial intelligence

Tom — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:10:54 +0000

Over the last year, many new opportunities became available for me to learn about coins with the use of artificial intelligence. These developments truly open a new chapter in what coin collecting could mean to me without vision. Previously I wrote a lot about recognizing coins with technology, so far what is still working and …

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Really BIG Money at the Smithsonian

Tom — Wed, 08 Nov 2023 11:26:03 +0000

Recently I learned that the Smithsonian has a new accessible exhibit, called Really BIG Money. And you know me, I just need to check things like that, so I used the excuse that flying home from Cincinnati there was no direct flight and I had to switch flights in Washington DC. Layovers are where good …

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Tactile coin exhibits

Tom — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:41:46 +0000

Last month I attended the Leadership Exchange in Disability and the Arts conference in Boston. I was very interested in the conference, so when I decided to attend, I thought it would be great to contribute something interesting. Given that not too many accessible and tactile coin exhibits exist, I submitted a short proposal about …

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For the 10th birthday

Tom — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 23:34:48 +0000

It’s been exactly ten years that I have started this blog. It has been transformed a few times, and it has also changed my life in many ways. Originally, I started to discuss the possibilities of collecting coins without vision. This gave me a couple of years worth of content, but let’s face it, there …

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