{"id":272543,"date":"2020-05-29T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=272543"},"modified":"2020-11-06T09:23:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-06T09:23:07","slug":"egyptian-silver-piastre-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a9-%d9%82%d8%b1%d8%b4-%d9%81%d8%b6%d9%89-%d9%85%d8%b5%d8%b1%d9%8a\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian silver piastre coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">An Egyptian silver piaster coin, likely a gift from one soldier to another in 1918 as a good luck charm, was carved with a horse&#039;s head and horseshoe (both symbols of good luck) and seven nails (also a sign of good luck) in what is known as &quot;trench art,&quot; a common tradition among soldiers during World War I. Incidentally, the coin is incredibly small \u2013 only 16 mm in diameter! This presented a significant challenge for the soldier carving it to achieve this result.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Egyptian silver piaster coin, likely a gift from one soldier to another in 1918 as a good luck charm. The soldier smoothed the surface of the coin until it was completely smooth, then engraved on it an image of a horse&#039;s head and horseshoe (a sign of good luck) with seven nails (also a sign of good luck) in what is known as &quot;trench art,&quot; a common tradition among World War II soldiers\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wpupg_custom_link":[],"wpupg_custom_link_behaviour":[],"wpupg_custom_link_nofollow":[],"wpupg_custom_image":[],"wpupg_custom_image_id":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[303,411,304],"class_list":["post-272543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coins","tag-303","tag-411","tag-304"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}