{"id":1140,"date":"2013-04-10T17:05:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2025-06-24T14:43:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T13:43:47","slug":"coins-of-the-world-photographed-using-europes-best-microscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/1140","title":{"rendered":"Coins of the World Photographed Using Europe’s Best Microscope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Michael Zhang<\/a> writes about the Fundamental Units over on Peta Pixel<\/a> with lots of images.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did you know that it costs the US Mint 2 cents to produce every 1 cent coin due to the cost of materials and production? Countries such as Canada have already done away with their lowest denomination coins due to their costs and lack of usefulness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As these worthless coins cause debates in their governments about whether or not they should be abolished, photographer Martin John Callanan is on a mission to save them not as a currency, but rather in photographs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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and the Baltic News Network<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and Botanwang<\/a> in China<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and CNBCE in Turkey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and Cekin<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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and Wander Lust Mind<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michael Zhang writes about the Fundamental Units over on Peta Pixel with lots of images. Did you know that it costs the US Mint 2 cents to produce every 1 cent coin due to the cost of materials and production? Countries such as Canada have already done away with their lowest denomination coins due to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,11,1408],"tags":[1698,1699,65,1188,1760,1688,1696,1695,1490,672,1483,169,238,1718,1689,691,1700,1691,782,1690,1694,1692,1772,1693],"class_list":["post-1140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-output","category-the-fundamental-units","tag-article-article","tag-baltic-news","tag-callanan","tag-canada","tag-cnbce","tag-coins-of-the-world","tag-currency","tag-debates","tag-denomination","tag-europe","tag-fundamental-units","tag-governments","tag-images","tag-lv","tag-michael-zhang","tag-microscope","tag-news-network","tag-photographer-martin","tag-photographs","tag-pixel","tag-production-countries","tag-us-mint","tag-wander-lust","tag-worthless-coins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1140"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3023,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140\/revisions\/3023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greyisgood.eu\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}