{"id":6518,"date":"2015-02-28T23:29:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T07:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/?p=6518"},"modified":"2015-02-28T23:29:58","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T07:29:58","slug":"sir-john-macdonald-toonie-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/sir-john-macdonald-toonie-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir John A. Macdonald Toonie Coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While breezing through the mall today I noticed that there was a long line up for whatever.  Upon further inspection, it looked like people were exchanging money.  As you can see by this sign, apparently people were trading regular $2 Canadian coins for what I guess is a limited edition coin.  In this case, a \u201ctoonie\u201d of Sir John A.Macdonald.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6519\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/sir-john-macdonald-toonie-coin\/johnacoin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"500,667\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"johnacoin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin-225x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin.jpg\" alt=\"johnacoin\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin-118x157.jpg 118w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/johnacoin-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have never been too into money collecting personally since I usually just put most of the money in the bank.  I wonder how many people accidentally spend these types of limited coins and dollar bills without knowing they are actually rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While breezing through the mall today I noticed that there was a long line up for whatever. Upon further inspection, it looked like people were exchanging money. As you can see by this sign, apparently people were trading regular $2 Canadian coins for what I guess is a limited edition coin. In this case, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[5520,5523,5521,5522,5519],"class_list":["post-6518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-canadian-mint","tag-coin-trade","tag-john-a-macdonald","tag-limited-coin","tag-toonie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/drone40.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6VnHC-1H8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6518"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6518\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al6400.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}