{"id":6193,"date":"2014-06-07T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2014-06-08T04:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/coin-box\/"},"modified":"2014-06-07T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-08T04:10:51","slug":"coin-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/06\/07\/coin-box\/","title":{"rendered":"Coin Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/coin-box.jpg' title='Coin Box'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/coin-box.jpg' alt='Coin Box' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a coin collector <em>per se<\/em>, but over the years, I have tossed some coins into a box that I keep in the safe. I halfheartedly saved the quarters with the states on them, but only amassed a few of them, many being duplicates. I also saved JFK half-dollars when I found them and put a lot of &#8220;Suzi Bucks&#8221; (Susan B. Anthony one-dollar coins) in the box,  most of which came out of postage stamp vending machines as change.<\/p>\n<p>On the foreign coins side of the box, I have a variety of coinage from places we have visited or have come to possess mysteriously. There is a 500 peso Mexican piece, a bunch of Italian coins brought back from Rome, some interesting French-Polynesian coins from a long-ago visit to Tahiti and a cold-war relic <em>zehn pfennig<\/em> (ten pennies) coin from the Bundesrepublik of West Germany.<\/p>\n<p>I have no use for them other than as money in the US coins case. For the foreign coins, I may pass them along to the grandchildren for their amusement. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not a coin collector per se, but over the years, I have tossed some coins into a box that I keep in the safe. I&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-money","category-something-shiny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}