{"id":753,"date":"2008-02-09T12:55:36","date_gmt":"2008-02-09T12:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/wordpress\/?p=753"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T20:36:26","slug":"just_another_tr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/just_another_tr.html","title":{"rendered":"Just another trip to Coinstar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Total change turned in for &#8220;real money&#8221; = $144.50.<br \/>\n&#8220;Change&#8221; rejected by Coinstar:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"square\">\n<li>Another Boston T token.*<\/li>\n<li>One 2-cent Euro.<\/li>\n<li>One Canadian dime.<\/li>\n<li>One British penny.<\/li>\n<li>One, presumably U.S., penny so molded over and verdigreed that I think it might grow a tree if I planted it.<\/li>\n<li>One U.S. penny just barely beginning to mold.<\/li>\n<li>One U.S. dime, the side ridges of which seem to have somehow been replaced by the outside edge of a penny? I mean, it&#8217;s a dime, silver 10-cent piece, but instead of the thin silver scored outer rim a normal dime has, it has a smooth copper rim that extends past the edge on both sides (i.e., is for a fatter coin than a dime). Bizarre!<\/li>\n<li>One perfectly normal U.S. dime.<\/li>\n<li>And a perfectly good U.S. quarter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So one transit coin, three non US, two US degraded, one US bizarro, and two perfectly good coins that should have been accepted as Legal currency.<\/p>\n<p><em>*It&#8217;s got to be the Walgreens by work that keeps giving me these. I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re even still valid tokens!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total change turned in for &#8220;real money&#8221; = $144.50. &#8220;Change&#8221; rejected by Coinstar: Another Boston T token.* One 2-cent Euro. One Canadian dime. One British penny. One, presumably U.S., penny so molded over and verdigreed that I think it might &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/archives\/2008\/02\/just_another_tr.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaching","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3908,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions\/3908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/crankymonkeybutt.com\/snip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}