{"id":11202,"date":"2016-10-18T21:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11202"},"modified":"2016-10-26T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T02:08:11","slug":"a-few-old-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11202","title":{"rendered":"A Few Old Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11204\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161018_132137.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11204\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161018_132137-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"A Few Old Coins\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11204\" data-wp-pid=\"11204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161018_132137-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161018_132137-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161018_132137-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161018_132137-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161018_132137-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161018_132137.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11204\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Few Old Coins<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m not what you&#8217;d generally describe as a coin collector. On the other hand, I have a collection of coins. It isn&#8217;t very extensive and it&#8217;s certainly not very valuable, but it&#8217;s made up of coins I&#8217;ve accumulated over the years. As kids we would go through mom and dad&#8217;s coins looking for any we didn&#8217;t already have. Back then, in the 1960s, finding pennies with what are known as wheat backs wasn&#8217;t a big deal (they went through 1958) but now, it&#8217;s a pretty rare occurrence. Even rarer these days is to come across a steel penny, made in 1943 because of wartime shortages of copper. Pictured here are also two nickels from 1939 and 1941 and a Liberty Head dime from 1942.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not what you&#8217;d generally describe as a coin collector. On the other hand, I have a collection of coins. It isn&#8217;t very extensive and it&#8217;s certainly not very valuable, but it&#8217;s made up of coins I&#8217;ve accumulated over the years. As kids we would go through mom and dad&#8217;s coins looking for any we &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11202\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11202"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11212,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11202\/revisions\/11212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}