{"id":9,"date":"2009-01-04T16:59:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T16:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=9"},"modified":"2009-01-04T16:59:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T16:59:08","slug":"coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new 2009 coins  are in circulation now so if you see any of these, and you are not collecting them  yourself, let me know and I&#8217;ll arrange a swap.\u00a0 For your bright, shiny, practically untainted piece of numismatic history you can have some coins of equal  monetary worth that have been around the block a bit.\u00a0 Please form an orderly  queue.<\/p>\n<p>I already have the  new coins based on the Royal Shield of Arms and if you are not careful I will make you look at them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banthewasp.com\/my_blo2.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"150\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a32 coin to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth  of       Robert  Burns.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banthewasp.com\/my_blo5.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"171\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a32 coin marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of  Charles        Darwin as well as the 150th anniversary of the publication of On  the        Origin of Species.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banthewasp.com\/my_blo3.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"202\" height=\"152\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u00a32 coin &#8220;commemorating the outstanding success of  the       London 2012  bid and the official Handover Ceremony.&#8221; (Text from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.royalmint.com\/\">www.royalmint.com<\/a> )<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.banthewasp.com\/my_blo4.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"177\" height=\"136\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">50p celebrates the 250th anniversary of the  foundation of         the  Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new 2009 coins are in circulation now so if you see any of these, and you are not collecting them yourself, let me know and I&#8217;ll arrange a swap.\u00a0 For your bright, shiny, practically untainted piece of numismatic history you can have some coins of equal monetary worth that have been around the block [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[51],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numismatics","tag-coins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}