{"id":272828,"date":"2020-11-13T21:25:36","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T21:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/?p=272828"},"modified":"2020-11-18T08:05:17","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T08:05:17","slug":"yep-islands-huge-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%ac%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b6%d8%ae%d9%85%d8%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"Yep Island&#039;s huge coins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Yep Island in Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean, uses the US dollar as its official currency, but they also use another unusual currency: large limestone discs, some weighing as much as a car. These discs are plentiful there, and thieves cannot steal them due to their size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right wp-block-paragraph\">Source<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2011\/02\/15\/131934618\/the-island-of-stone-money?fbclid=IwAR1jeyPGW9cbb6G2uGY1Slr6tA1Dy1PjvOr_LdrRnG3ryZJ62fA83sZ2HWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2011\/02\/15\/131934618\/the-island-of-stone-money?fbclid=IwAR1jeyPGW9cbb6G2uGY1Slr6tA1Dy1PjvOr_LdrRnG3ryZJ62fA83sZ2HWU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125376932_3457504904343659_923170826160382377_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"272831\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125376932_3457504904343659_923170826160382377_n.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%ac%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b6%d8%ae%d9%85%d8%a9\/125376932_3457504904343659_923170826160382377_n\/\" class=\"wp-image-272831\"><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125427570_3457505014343648_520176670716053170_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"272832\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/125427570_3457505014343648_520176670716053170_n.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/%d8%b9%d9%85%d9%84%d8%a7%d8%aa-%d8%ac%d8%b2%d9%8a%d8%b1%d8%a9-%d9%8a%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d9%84%d8%b6%d8%ae%d9%85%d8%a9\/125427570_3457505014343648_520176670716053170_n\/\" class=\"wp-image-272832\"><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The island of Yep in Micronesia, in the Pacific Ocean, uses the US dollar as its official currency. However, they also use another unusual currency: large limestone discs, some weighing as much as a car. These discs are plentiful there, and thieves cannot steal them due to their size. Source: https:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/money\/2011\/02\/15\/131934618\/the-island-of-stone-money?fbclid=IwAR1jeyPGW9cbb6G2uGY1Slr6tA1Dy1PjvOr_LdrRnG3ryZJ62fA83sZ2HWU<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1508,"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":[333],"tags":[444,303],"class_list":["post-272828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ancient-coins","tag-444","tag-303"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272828","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\/1508"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arabcollector.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}