After I wrote a post about accessible currency, I got an interesting question from Dean Parr, Numismatist about what I thought about using a QR code on a currency. The example was the Russian 100 Ruble, which is a circulation commemorative. If you are not familiar with the concept, briefly a QR code is a …
Category Archives: Currency
Note Teller 2, a money identification device
Earlier i wrote about my collection of currency identifiers. This week I have added an interesting device to the collection, called the Note Teller which was mostly used around 2010. At the end of the post there is also a video about it.
What is accessible currency?
I’ve been writing about currency recently. No worries, we will get back to coins soon, but this is an interesting topic and deserves some discussion. I am researching the topic in greater detail, so probably I will have more to say about it. So, today, I would like to write about what is really accessible …
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 …
How Blind People Identify Paper Money
For people who are blind or visually impaired, it is important to safely and quickly recognize their currency. Both when paying, and when receiving change. Depending on the currency, there are different solutions available. Let’s examine a few ways of how blind people can safely recognize their paper currency.
Currency Recognition for the Visually Impaired
Ever since there is paper currency in the US, visually impaired people have come up with solutions to recognize their money, I recently wrote about how Blind people recognize currency when I discussed collecting paper currency. There is also a more thorough description on how blind people identify paper money. This week there was some …
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Collecting Paper Currency
When I started collecting, I have collected bank notes, among many other things. The better question was, what didn’t I collect? It is a very interesting subject that I still follow today, but I stopped collecting notes.