{"id":16037,"date":"2022-08-30T19:50:49","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T18:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16037"},"modified":"2022-09-02T20:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-02T19:04:03","slug":"daily_2764_-_coin_collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/08\/30\/daily_2764_-_coin_collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2764 – coin collection"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nI’ve been collecting coins since high school. Whenever I travel to a new country, I come home with coins from that country. I also have coins from Eric’s travels, and my mum’s. Some I’ve swapped for, when meeting people from other countries. But all are naturally, organically acquired – none are bought.<\/p>\n

These days I rarely get new ones, so it’s a low-pace hobby now. All sorts of forces work against my collecting. Most of Europe uses euros. I travel less, and avoid long flights which might otherwise take me outside of Europe. And cash is becoming less and less common – faster in Sweden than in other countries, and in Slovenia we did run across places that only accepted cash, but nevertheless cash transactions are getting rare. Who knows – in another few decades, the whole idea of coins might be a quaint, antiquated one.<\/p>\n

The coins that I’ve had longest date back to before I was collecting – old Soviet rouble coins from my childhood piggy bank.<\/p>\n

The newest coins are three euro coins with Slovenian designs on the rear. Euro coins do travel to some extent, and I have some from countries where I haven’t been since they switched to the euro, but it’s still most common to get the local country’s designs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve been collecting coins since high school. Whenever I travel to a new country, I come home with coins from that country. I also have coins from Eric’s travels, and my mum’s. Some I’ve swapped for, when meeting people from other countries. But all are naturally, organically acquired – none are bought. These days I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16038,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16037\/revisions\/16038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}