{"id":2403,"date":"2012-08-18T17:02:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=2403"},"modified":"2012-08-18T17:02:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T00:02:49","slug":"coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=2403","title":{"rendered":"Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy interesting art on coins, stamps, vegetable stickers\u2026 <\/p>\n<p>Today I ran across this coin amongst my stuff, but have no recollection where it came from.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/CoinIDIMG_7487.jpg\" alt=\"Unknown Coin\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found this coin when I was in grad school. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/1956ItalyFront.jpg\" alt=\"1956 Italian Coin Front\" \/><br \/>\nI like that the guy is a metal worker of sorts, but safety should require protective gear.<\/p>\n<p>Very cool that it was minted in 1956.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/1956ItalyBackIMG_7489.jpg\" alt=\"1956 Italian Coin Back\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Also minted in 1956.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/1956PennyIMG_7491.jpg\" alt=\"1956 Penny\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p>How cool would it be if one of the members of the NY School used this quarter to pay for coffee?<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/1945QuarterIMG_1407.jpg\" alt=\"1945 Quarter\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There are a variety of eagles on coins. This one seems about to take flight.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/1921DollarIMG_1406.jpg\" alt=\"1921 Dollar\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I received the dollar during a purchase in Marion, Ohio. The idea is to post it on the website and then send it back out into the world. I liked the little bunny and have kept it in my wallet for several years.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/DollarToTrackIMG_1408.jpg\" alt=\"Bunny on Dollar\" \/><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n<p>I bound a penny and fired it to 1250\u00baF thinking that it was copper. I was hoping for a bit of slumping. When I researched the composition of pennies I found that they are primarily zinc. So, not surprising that the coin melted at a lower temperature.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class='centered' src=\"\/images\/PennyFiredFront.jpg\" alt=\"Fired Penny\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmint.gov\/about_the_mint\/fun_facts\/?action=fun_facts2\/\" >United States Mint<\/a> site\u2013<\/p>\n<p><i>The alloy remained 95 percent copper and 5 percent zinc until 1982, when the composition was changed to 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper (copper-plated zinc).<\/i><\/p>\n<hr class=\"hrVisible\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy interesting art on coins, stamps, vegetable stickers\u2026 Today I ran across this coin amongst my stuff, but have no recollection where it came from. I found this coin when I was in grad school. I like that the guy is a metal worker of sorts, but safety should require protective gear. Very cool &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/?p=2403\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Coins<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,26,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-misc-interests","category-observations","category-processes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2403"}],"version-history":[{"count":74,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2477,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2403\/revisions\/2477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everythingisnotblackandwhite.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}