I have mentioned that I collect by type. Partly, because I cannot tell the date of a coin, so the same type of coin from 2002 and 2003 is the same when you touch it. In this post I would like to tell you why the date of a coin is still important.
The Value of A Coin
When you can’t see a coin, the value has a different meaning. In regular collecting, among many things, the value is determined by the quality of the coin. To me, besides the fact of how much I want a particular coin, the value is in how well I can feel the details.
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The cataloging system
Once a coin is identified, I don’t want to have to do it again. It is time to put it into a system where it can be identified again.
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How can you recognize coins if you can’t see them?
Before answering this question, I need to clear a couple of things here. I love independence. It really bothers me when I need to depend on other people for no reason. There is a time and place when you ask for help, we all do. But being blind, I feel that sometimes I need to ask for more help than others. Now, why did I pick a hobby that one would associate with being able to see, or if you can’t see, it requires help.
I’m the first one to admit, there is a stage in recognizing the coin when vision is required. Once you learn to recognize a particular coin by touch, the next identical one is easy to tell. However, writing is so small even on large coins that you cannot spell it with your finger. I need somebody to give me enough information about a coin to get me started.
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What do I collect?
Coin collecting is not a science. It is a hobby, mostly determined by external factors. Therefore, we all collect differently, different coins, and according to different criteria.
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What made me interested?
Partly it was the challenge. Little or big. This is something that never changed in my life. I enjoy taking a concept and develop it. Not to completion, to me nothing is completed. Only finished. And this fits very well into coin collecting.
Imagine that you close your eyes and hold a piece of metal in your hand. That’s a piece of metal, nothing else. Then you start examining it; it has a shape, a texture, weight size, smell, etc. It is still just a coin, it could be anything. Real, fake, old or new, you may even find out that it isn’t really a coin just a piece of metal.
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How it started
It was one of the usual coin collecting stories. I was about six when I got a plastic treasure chest. I really wanted it, but then I had no idea what to store in there. After bugging my mom for a while, she gave me a handful of coins which they brought back from Czechoslovakia from a recent trip. I put them into the treasure chest and declared that I’m collecting coins.
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