Hearing Coins

TIF · Jul 29, 2018

chrsmat71 said: ↑

See if you can ID the coins by sound! There are 4 different coins you will hear. I just pick up the edge of the coin a bit and let it drop on my table and recorded the sound.

Here are the options....

A. Constantinian AE 3 soldiers with standards coin.

B. Roman Billon tet of Alexandria from Commodus.

C. Domitian AE sestertius.

D. Sassanian AR drachm.

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Hey Chris-- you left us hanging ! What are the answers?

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Nicholas Molinari · Jul 29, 2018

Tom Babinszki said: ↑

This is fascinating, thank you for sharing.

I am a totally blind collector myself, but I have no idea how to even start recognizing the dates. This is the second person I have heard about who can figure out the date without sight, but I have not met anybody. I would be very interested in getting in touch with someone who can explain this to me. Most importantly because if there is a way I could develop my touch in this direction, it could help me a lot in collecting.

I recognize coins by touch, I'd say about 500 different ones, of course not the dates. At some point I was thinking about training myself to recognize more, but in all honesty it is not relevant to me after a while. I catalog my coins and record the exact locations, so I initially do need help from a sighted person, unless I know what a coin is exactly. At this point, there is no need to be able to recognize a particular coin, but I have to say, it is fun to memorize them, but when it comes to spending time, it is even more fun to read about the background of a coin.

If anybody could put me in touch with people who can tell dates by touch, I'd really appreciate it.
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I think she was able to memorize the coin using touch and sound. I do not think I could hand her a random coin from my pocket and have her identify it. She (presumably) knows her collection perfectly. So someone initially tells her the coin variety, and she memorizes its feel and sound.

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