{"id":86,"date":"2008-11-17T03:34:59","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T11:34:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2008-11-17T03:34:59","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T11:34:59","slug":"on-the-subject-of-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"On the subject of coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rooting through the boxes under the stairs for a blender to extract DNA from dried peas led me to a coin stash from way, way back.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these coins came from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/alex\/pictures\/scanned_old_pictures\/index.htm#grandma_lv_1967_002\">grandma<\/a>&#8221; &#8211; as in my mother&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p>1809 half penny anyone?<\/p>\n<p>I like the silver dollars. You don&#8217;t see a lot of them around in stores these days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/alex\/blog\/images\/coins_001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/alex\/blog\/images\/coins_001_small.jpg\" alt=\"Old coins\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s with the &#8220;Tax Token&#8221;? &#8230; &#8230; Ah. The Internet. Always waiting to answer your questions. It&#8217;s things like tax tokens that remind us of worser times before our births.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of which: who can forget steel pennies from WWII?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rooting through the boxes under the stairs for a blender to extract DNA from dried peas led me to a coin stash from way, way back. Some of these coins came from &#8220;grandma&#8221; &#8211; as in my mother&#8217;s mother. 1809 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/?p=86\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloggy-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tranzoa.net\/~alex\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}