{"id":1591,"date":"2016-10-04T22:33:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1591-one-million-dollars.html"},"modified":"2016-10-04T22:33:06","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T12:03:06","slug":"one-million-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1591-one-million-dollars.html","title":{"rendered":"One Million Dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:2204 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"580\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/1420-_MG_4924.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAustralia has a bit of a reputation for having some of the &#8216;Largest&#8217; things in the world.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOften these are kitsch representations of some local industry or icon like &#8216;The Big Pineapple&#8217; or &#8216;The Giant Koala; you get the idea.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen I was told I was about to see the worlds largest coin (legal tender) in the Perth Mint I was not expecting what I was about to see.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nOne thousand kilograms of 99.99% pure gold crafted into a single legal tender coin with a face value of one million dollars and a true gold value well over $54,000,000.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI considered for a moment if there was a way I might roll it out of there but suspect its shear weight is all the theft protection it needs.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nAustralia might have a lot of kitsch &#8216;Big&#8217; things but this coin is not one of them.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;One Million Dollars&#8217; 1\/80s f\/1.4 ISO2500 50mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; Australia has a bit of a reputation for having some of the &#8216;Largest&#8217; things in the world. Often these are kitsch representations of some local industry or icon like &#8216;The Big Pineapple&#8217; or &#8216;The Giant Koala; you get the idea. When I was told I was about to see the worlds &#8230; <a title=\"One Million Dollars\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/1591-one-million-dollars.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about One Million Dollars\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}