{"id":2348,"date":"2012-02-15T14:51:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=2348"},"modified":"2012-02-15T14:53:12","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T22:53:12","slug":"a-quarters-worth-of-pennies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2012\/a-quarters-worth-of-pennies\/","title":{"rendered":"A Quarter&#8217;s Worth of Pennies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/7\/72\/Jefferson-Nickel-Unc-Obv.jpg\/244px-Jefferson-Nickel-Unc-Obv.jpg\" alt=\"Nickel, USA\" style=\"float:right; width:75px; height:131px; margin-top:-2px; margin-left:25px\" \/>   <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/b\/b8\/2005-Penny-Uncirculated-Obverse-cropped.png\/225px-2005-Penny-Uncirculated-Obverse-cropped.png\" alt=\"Penny, USA\" style=\"float:right; width:75px; height:125px\" \/>    So&#8230;a quarter&#8217;s worth of pennies costs 60 cents. \ud83d\ude2f<\/p>\n<p>And a quarter&#8217;s worth of nickels costs 56 cents. \ud83d\ude44<\/p>\n<p>I wonder what they&#8217;re bringing on eBay&#8230; \ud83d\ude06 <!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"quotes\">&#8220;recently, the penny has cost approximately 2.4 cents,<br \/>\nand the nickel approximately 11.2 cents to produce&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href='http:\/\/www.outsidethebeltway.com\/u-s-mint-loses-6-cents-on-every-nickel-it-produces'>U.S. Mint Loses 6 Cents On Every Nickel It Produces<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I hope I just launched the latest eBay craze.<\/p>\n<p>(If I did &#8212; or didn&#8217;t &#8212; you could see if <a href=\"http:\/\/members.ebay.com\/ws\/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&#038;userid=markroth\">I caught it<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, though. This is a good launching point for this question:<\/p>\n<p><b>For what am I paying too much?<\/b><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So&#8230;a quarter&#8217;s worth of pennies costs 60 cents. \ud83d\ude2f And a quarter&#8217;s worth of nickels costs 56 cents. \ud83d\ude44 I wonder what they&#8217;re bringing on eBay&#8230; \ud83d\ude06<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[395,463],"tags":[1001],"class_list":["post-2348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-and-such","category-thisandthat","tag-ebay"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-BS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}