{"id":12512,"date":"2008-04-05T14:46:44","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T21:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2008\/04\/05\/coin-coin-2.html"},"modified":"2008-04-05T14:46:44","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T21:46:44","slug":"coin_coin_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2008\/04\/05\/coin_coin_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Coin! <i>Coin!<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"img-shadow-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"New UK coins\" height=\"296\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/images\/new-uk-coins.JPG\" width=\"206\" \/><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmint.com\/newdesigns\/designsRevealed.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">New UK coins<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Very &#8230; very &#8230; cool.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, not only are they cool as a puzzle, but they remind me of old coins that are offset or slighly misprinted. Neat.<\/p>\n<p><small><\/p>\n<p>(via Ginny)<\/p>\n<p><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New UK coins. Very &#8230; very &#8230; cool. Actually, not only are they cool as a puzzle, but they remind me of old coins that are offset or slighly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-art"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6185,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/04\/30\/ch_ching_6.html","url_meta":{"origin":12512,"position":0},"title":"Ch-ching","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 30-Apr-04 5:48am","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sacagawea Dollar has been pretty much a flop, after over $65MM was spent on its roll-out. 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