Let’s continue the International Year of Disabled Persons coin series with Portugal. Portugal released two coins to commemorate the International Year of Disabled Persons, a 25 and a 100 Escudo. Though the official date of IYDP was 1981, these coins were released to circulation in 1984, for the opening of the XV. international rehabilitation congress. …
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IYDP coins of the Isle of Man
In 1981, the Isle of Man released four 1 Crown coins celebrating the international Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP). With this, they issued almost ten percent of the entire series. Though the coins are identical in measurement, they represent a diverse history and are unique in many ways. Before we look at the coins, it …
International Year of Disabled Persons coin series
The United Nations proclaimed 1981 as the International Year of Disabled Persons (IYDP). In connection with this event, countries around the world released a series of commemorative coins. Surprisingly, there is very little information out there about the series, information can only be gathered from numerous resources. I set out to uncover and collect some …
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The challenges of collecting paper money
Originally the title of this post was going to be why I am not collecting paper currency. But over the months as I was putting my thoughts together (AKA procrastinating) to write this post, I had to admit that I do have a bank note collection, and for that matter, I do collect accessible currency …
Harvester is updated to version 2.0
I am happy to announce that the harvester macro has been updated. It is now much faster, collects more data and it is much more accurate.
An excellent online coin dealer
Recently I’ve been buying coins from a wonderful coin dealer online. I like his services so much, I wanted to share it with you. Originally he was recommended by my collector friend, Ole Sjoelund. His name is Gundars Sokolovskis, and he is from Latvia. Gundars sells mostly 20th and 21st century circulation coins, though he …
The price of travel in Brazil in the 1930’s according to Gabor Molnar
One great aspect of coin collecting is to just sit and ponder about what an old coin was used for when it was in circulation. To me it often more interesting than owning a coin. Of course, it is a little more than pondering. It inspires me to read about history, economy, travel or literature. …
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My new collection: currency identifiers
It was by accident that I ended up with a collection of currency identifiers. Let me explain. Recently I started to research accessible currencies for people with visual impairment. It didn’t take long to figure out that it will not make much sense on a theoretical level, because reading about it is one thing, but …
Recognizing Coins with Seeing AI
The constant struggle of a blind coin collector is how to identify a coin. The easy way is, ask somebody what it is. But it is not all that simple. It is not other people’s hobby after all, and I can’t expect to have somebody around to help me all the time. Over the years …
Harvester: copy information about coins from Numista into Excel
Introduction My primary coin collection is cataloged in Excel. I like to record all kinds of information about my coins, mostly found in Numista, but until now I had to copy it by hand from Numista into the Excel sheet. This takes quite a bit of time, so I wrote an excel Macro which is …
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