Nothing's impossible when you put your mind to it

Consider this blog by a blind coin collector.
http://blindcoincollector.com

 

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His wife takes the pictures.........

 

I actually communicate to him from time to time. He's part of another coin club (WINS) that I'm in.

 

I'm sure he's an exceptional fellow........

 

He is indeed; very nice fellow. We actually traded coins as he's a world type collector as well.

 

How does he 'view' things? Tactile?

 

Yes, in fact he wrote an article on it for our newsletter: http://www.winsociety.org/newsletter/vol-7/Let-Blind-See.html

 

This puts the ridiculous chase for MS70 in perspective. We should be able to just enjoy our coins for what they are.

 

His site won't take comments saying my email address is not valid. I hate programs that reject email addresses based on faulty data suppositions about .com, .net, .org, .ca, .edu, etc. etc. and which one is valid and which one is not. Programs would do better if they made the person respond to an email to verify it before dismissing it altogether as an invalid email address.

 

He let me know that he was having issues dealing with the spamming of his comment board. He had to reduce the allowable input to stop the spamming. Unfortunately, it also affected most comments by not allowing them. Very sorry!

 

Thank you for looking at my blog. I appreciate your observation about the comments, for now I turned off the strong spam filter, you only have to answer an easy math question to prove you are a human. There was a point I got so much spam that my provider pulled the site down. Regarding pictures, my personal challenge is to take my own pictures, though I will ask my wife if they show what I really think it is. What you see in the last two posts are pictures I took myself, however, one of the posts is documenting my adventure of taking pictures, so the bad ones are also there for a reason.

 

I was just wondering about this the other day.

I was listening to a radio show where they were talking about what would be your worst thing to loose from a personal health standpoint.

Don't hold this against me, but I have been a life long fan of Def Leppard. If there is a person to learn perseverance from, Rick Allen, the drummer is one heck of an inspiration. Lost his left arm in a car wreck and still figured out how to play the drums and is still going. One of his nick names is Thunder God. Coming from someone who has experience in playing a drum set, he is one heck of an example in hard core perseverance.

I digress...

As I was thinking about the question from the radio show host (which I believe was Nikki Six from Motley Cru) I though, "man I'd hate to loos my site, I'd never be able to collect coins"...then I though "If I did loose my site how could I still collect coins...what would I look for, how would I tell the difference between a circulated coin and an unc..." etc. It was a conundrum for sure...

Well here we go... @Tom Babinszki Welcome to Coin Talk. I'm a member of WINS as well but have not really taken advantage of the membership as much. I look forward to reading your blog.

 

This is a very interesting thought. I also have my own senses that I would have a hard time to part with. I think there is a major difference between being born without something or losing it later. I was just preparing a new blog post to ask people what would they do with their coin collections if their vision would be limited or lost. I think it is a rather important question, when I talk with people they often say that they collected when they were kids and got more involved again after retirement/kids out of the house. It depends how you collect, unfortunately many collections can't be enjoyed without sight, especially those which would lose half of their value when touched once. A less expensive collection can be enjoyed in many different ways, with or without vision.

 

I think if I found myself deprived of sight, it might lend new interest to the sounds of "stacking silver".

This has been on my mind a bit lately, as an elderly family member has been suffering from deteriorating vision and hearing. It makes things tough; without a computer, with its facilities for adjusting text size and volume, it would be even tougher.

 

He's the loser in this. I was going to send him some coins to feel. It makes it impossible deal with someone who doesn't trust others enough to even exchange emails.

 

I see a big difference between "doesn't trust others enough to even exchange emails" and "had to impose a filter because he was getting so much spam his provider pulled his plug".

 

Nothing against the sound of stacking silver
You know it is so interesting that if you put the coins of each country into a separate bag and shake the bags, they all sound different. I noticed this traveling around Europe when I was a kid. Coins have a distinct sound in each country in the stores. So, as a kid, I started collecting individual countries in separate boxes. It was definitely a unique experience. It is now limited to my swap coins, which I do not catalog.

 

I exchange emails with him about once a month. It's not that he doesn't want to exchange, he literally had his site taken down by the team that runs it because of all the spam it was getting. No need to be so harsh, if you want to send him coins, I can put you in contact with him (by the way, the new member Tom Babinszki is him). Cheers

 

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I had a slightly hidden way to contact me from the site. It is when you download my swap list, you will find my email address in the Excel sheet.
For now, the comment options are back, hopefully for good. Believe me, I struggled for a whole year until I pulled it down. To date, I had 5000 spam messages, and 4000 unfiltered comments over the last two years. It is quite a bit given the 70 legitimate comments and contacts I got.