{"id":1488,"date":"2006-08-16T09:58:26","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T09:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2006-08-16T09:58:26","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T09:58:26","slug":"2006-8-16-new-le1-coins-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"New LE1 Coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">I read a while ago somewhere that the govt was planning to issue these new 50 Piasters and LE1 coins to replace the paper money notes circulating in the market. I&#8217;ve just come accross the LE1 coin yesterday, with King Tut&#8217;s face on it.<br \/>I tried taking a pic of those coins with my mob phone, but quality isn&#8217;t good.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Check flickr account\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elhamalawy\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NEW LE1 Coins\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/93\/216744579_6955bd28fa_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m curious to know what fellow Egyptians and Cairo Arabists think of those coins? Do you like them?<br \/>I mean, I&#8217;m kinda conflicted&#8230; The paper money notes circulating in the market have tended to be FILTHY. The Central Bank doesn&#8217;t recycle them as fast as they should. So I guess coins are better in that regards. But at the same time coins are not easy to carry around in wallets. Gotta buy a purse for them or something?.. Donno.. what do you think..?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and has anybody seen the 50 PT coins? I haven&#8217;t seen those yet. Pitch us a pic if you have one.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div data-src=\"v5\">I read a while ago somewhere that the govt was planning to issue these new 50 Piasters and LE1 coins to replace the paper money notes circulating in the market. I&#8217;ve just come accross the LE1 coin yesterday, with King Tut&#8217;s face on it.<br \/>\nI tried taking a pic of those coins with my mob phone, but quality isn&#8217;t good.<br \/>\n<a title=\"Check flickr account\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/elhamalawy\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"NEW LE1 Coins\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/93\/216744579_6955bd28fa_m.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nI&#8217;m curious to know what fellow Egyptians and Cairo Arabists think of those coins? Do you like them?<br \/>\nI mean, I&#8217;m kinda conflicted&#8230; The paper money notes circulating in the market have tended to be FILTHY. The Central Bank doesn&#8217;t recycle them as fast as they should. So I guess coins are better in that regards. But at the same time coins are not easy to carry around in wallets. Gotta buy a purse for them or something?.. Donno.. what do you think..?<br \/>\nOh, and has anybody seen the 50 PT coins? I haven&#8217;t seen those yet. Pitch us a pic if you have one.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[82,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/amrani.cc\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}