{"id":517,"date":"2007-04-18T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T10:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=517"},"modified":"2007-04-18T10:01:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T10:01:00","slug":"good-looking-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Good looking coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>My favorite bit of currency here is the 20 riyal coin. It&#8217;s worth a little less than 10 cents US these days.<\/div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00877\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.isaharr.com\/blog\/files\/good-looking-coin_1.jpg?resize=299%2C285\" width=\"299\" height=\"285\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DSC00880\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.isaharr.com\/blog\/files\/good-looking-coin_2.jpg?resize=300%2C275\" width=\"300\" height=\"275\"><\/p>\n<p>The tree is called &#8220;The tree of life&#8221; and is found on Socotra island. I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s called that. This is a picture of the older type with what I believe is a brass center. The new ones are made from one metal, I think they are aluminum. The new ones are undoubtedly less expensive to make since they are stamped out of a single piece of metal. Abdul Summit tells me that many people cut the middle out of these older coins to make decorations for their jambiays, necklaces, etc. I like this particular coin, it has a good patina on it and makes the graphics easier to see. I&#8217;ll keep looking for a better one though.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/Yemen\" rel=\"tag\">Yemen<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/middle\" rel=\"tag\">middle<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/east\" rel=\"tag\">east<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite bit of currency here is the 20 riyal coin. It&#8217;s worth a little less than 10 cents US these days. The tree is called &#8220;The tree of life&#8221; and is found on Socotra island. I don&#8217;t know why it&#8217;s called that. This is a picture of the older type with what I believe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yemen"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my-yemen-blog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}