On Monday, our last day in Cleveland, we went to the Cleveland Federal Bank's money museum. There I met up with an acquaintance, Tom Babinszki, whom I had met several years ago at a coin show in Chicago. Born in Budapest and blind at birth, he collects coins. He has been using my book about money museums as a guide when he travels to various cities here and abroad. He has a blog, aptly named, "The Blind Coin Collector.

Yes, money does grow on trees. At the Fed museum, there is a money tree with leaves of banknotes.At right: Tom Babinszki with Judy and Howard Berlin

The East 6th Street side main hallway of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland.

A display with a relatively small Yap stone money specimen.

An exhibit challenging museum visitors to identify whether U.S. banknotes are genuine or counterfeit.

To visit Tom's Blind Coin Collector blog, see:
http://blindcoincollector.com/

For more information about the Cleveland Fed, see:
https://www.clevelandfed.org/en/about-us/tours.aspx