A Special Trip to the Money Museum

A few weeks ago I got a surprise email from the Cleveland Money Museum, inviting bloggers for a special tour and reception. I was happy and surprised, I didn’t think they would find and read my ramblings, and of course, who can say no to a special tour. So, we went with Emily.

Emily's money
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Money Museum at the Cleveland Fed

Today I took Emily to the Cleveland Federal Reserve’s Learning Center and Money Museum. This trip was overdue, I’ve been planning it for over a year now, but it is mostly open during school days. So, finally, the time was right. Originally I called the museum to ask about any guided tours for kids or people with disabilities.
Emily on Dollar Bill
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Book Review – Fascinating Facts, Mysteries and Myths About U.S. Coins

It is indeed fascinating, whether you are a coin collector, interested in history, or a starting numismatist. This book is impossible to put down, it is jam packed with interesting rumors and information about the coins of the United States.

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World Square Coins – an Interview with the Author, Michael van den Heuvel

I met Michael van den Heuvel through this blog who published a book about square coins. I got in touch with him, because it sounded like a very interesting research. He was very kind to send me an electronic version of the book so I could easily read it. Square coins in general are much easier for me to identify. There is only a few of them, at least compared to round coins, therefore they are very distinguishable. I asked Michael if he would be willing to talk about his book and research on my blog.

Michael van den Heuvel – WORLD SQUARE COINS 1900-2000

I interviewed Michael about his project, below you can read our conversation.

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200 Escudos – Treaty of Tordesilhas

200 Escudos

Recently I got a new coin which is one of my current favorites, a 1994 200 Escudos from Portugal, commemorating the 500 year anniversary of the Treaty of Tordesilhas. I found it interesting that there wasn’t a particular reason for getting this coin aside from the fact that Portugal is probably taking the third place in my heart among countries. In particular, because I don’t really collect commemoratives, though there are more and more exceptions to this rule lately. However, there’s no good reason why I like this coin, I just do, and I think it is part of collecting.

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World’s Fair of Money

Last week I attended the World’s Fair of Money in Chicago. The primary reason why I went there was because I got an opportunity to make a presentation about collecting coins without sight. However, I thought I’d take the opportunity and spend three days at the show. Only one regret: I could have used more than three days, I was able to cover everything on the exhibit floor I was interested in, but there were way too many interesting presentations.

In this post I will give an overview of my impressions.

One of the greatest things was to meet some of the WINS club members, we took a picture together after my presentation.

group picture after presentation

When I refer to people, I am not going to use their full names, I have not checked with them, and I’m not sure how would they feel about being called out in this blog. If you recognize yourself, please let me know if you prefer to be further identified, or if you prefer that I make you more unrecognizable.

Also, you can download my presentation here that I’m not going to talk about now.

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