{"id":239,"date":"2002-08-07T20:19:13","date_gmt":"2002-08-08T00:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/?p=239"},"modified":"2022-11-13T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T02:45:57","slug":"unknown-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/2002\/08\/07\/unknown-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever my grandmother visits, she gives me whatever interesting coins she&#8217;s acquired on her travels around the world. Most of them are regular circulation coins, but there&#8217;s one that I can&#8217;t identify. I can&#8217;t tell if it&#8217;s extremely worn down or if it&#8217;s so old that it predates minting. That one side seems to be struck off-center seems to indicate that it is indeed hand-struck. The obverse seems to have some sort of writing that may be Middle-Eastern (it doesn&#8217;t look particularly Indic). The reverse shows two figures in hats (to my mind, I see a couple of sherpas confronted by a snake\u2014although their hats strike me more as Peruvian). Does anybody know anything about this coin?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/files\/2020\/04\/Unknown-Coin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/files\/2020\/04\/Unknown-Coin-300x178.png\" alt=\"Strange coin\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/files\/2020\/04\/Unknown-Coin-300x178.png 300w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/files\/2020\/04\/Unknown-Coin-1024x606.png 1024w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/files\/2020\/04\/Unknown-Coin-768x455.png 768w, https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/files\/2020\/04\/Unknown-Coin.png 1203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever my grandmother visits, she gives me whatever interesting coins she&#8217;s acquired on her travels around the world. Most of them are regular circulation coins, but there&#8217;s one that I can&#8217;t identify. I can&#8217;t tell if it&#8217;s extremely worn down or if it&#8217;s so old that it predates minting. That one side seems to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/synetech.ddns.net\/blogs\/erklarenmir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}