{"id":3053,"date":"2006-04-27T01:39:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-27T01:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2019-04-23T15:19:52","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T20:19:52","slug":"checking-my-change-jar-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/27\/checking-my-change-jar-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Checking My Change Jar Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/business\/money\/travis.asp\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A collector deliberately placed three valuable U.S. coins into circulation in New York in April 2006<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To help introduce more people to &#8220;the magic of coin collecting,&#8221; Scott A. Travers, a 44-year-old former vice president of the American Numismatic Association and author of The Coin Collector&#8217;s Survival Manual, decided to mark National Coin Week in mid-April 2006 by deliberately spending three valuable old pennies as he made routine purchases around Manhattan. &#8220;I&#8217;m planting a seed, and I hope that a new generation of people will come to appreciate the history that coins represent,&#8221; he<br \/>\nsaid.<\/p>\n<p>The three coins Scott Travers planned to spend were all relatively low-mintage U.S. one-cent pieces nearly one hundred years old: a 1908-S Indian Head cent, and 1909-S VDB and 1914-D Lincoln cents.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hey, it&#8217;s less than the Powerball but since I&#8217;m too stingy to drop change in the jar at Starbucks, I have a better chance at winning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collector deliberately placed three valuable U.S. coins into circulation in New York in April 2006: To help introduce more people to &#8220;the magic of coin collecting,&#8221; Scott A. Travers, a 44-year-old former vice president of the American Numismatic Association and author of The Coin Collector&#8217;s Survival Manual, decided to mark National Coin Week in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24482,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions\/24482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}