{"id":389,"date":"2003-04-24T17:49:31","date_gmt":"2003-04-24T22:49:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/?p=389"},"modified":"2003-04-24T17:49:31","modified_gmt":"2003-04-24T22:49:31","slug":"bored-with-coll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/04\/bored-with-coll\/","title":{"rendered":"Bored with collecting quarters? Nickel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Bored with collecting quarters?<\/b><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/story\/0,2933,85089,00.html\">Nickel to Get Commemorative Back Side<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The back side of the new 5-cent coin will commemorate the bicentennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the 1804-06 Lewis and Clark expedition. The U.S. Mint hopes to issue the nickels late this year or in early 2004&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/a><br \/>\nMy husband will be interested in this story.  He is collecting the state quarters and Roosevelt dimes.  I&#8217;m all for things like this &#8212; I like things like commemorative stamps and coins, though I&#8217;m not a collector.<br \/>\nSeveral years ago George Will wrote a column in which he suggested that US currency depict American writers and artists instead of political figures &#8212; for example, Mark Twain on the one dollar bill.<br \/>\nI like the Sacagewea dollar coins too.  I hope they&#8217;re still around if I have the opportunity to give gifts of money to little children.  Woudn&#8217;t it be the coolest thing to find a shiny gold coin under your pillow or in your shoes or Christmas stocking?<br \/>\nUnfortunately, I suspect dollar coins will be widely accepted in the US only when the dollar bill is withdrawn from circulation &#8212; tough love from the US Mint!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bored with collecting quarters? Nickel to Get Commemorative Back Side The back side of the new 5-cent coin will commemorate the bicentennial of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and the 1804-06 Lewis and Clark expedition. The U.S. Mint hopes to issue the nickels late this year or in early 2004&#8230;. My husband will be interested in&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/2003\/04\/bored-with-coll\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bored with collecting quarters? Nickel<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moss-place.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}