{"id":18845,"date":"2012-10-12T13:49:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=18845"},"modified":"2012-10-12T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T18:49:40","slug":"war-of-1812-commemorative-coin-swap-at-brock-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2012\/10\/war-of-1812-commemorative-coin-swap-at-brock-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"War of 1812 commemorative coin swap at Brock on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18846\" style=\"width: 438px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"highslide\" onclick=\"return vz.expand(this)\" href=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brock-quarter.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18846\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18846\" title=\"brock-quarter\" src=\"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/brock-quarter.jpg\" alt=\"The Royal Canadian Mint is hold a coin swap at Brock on Monday for people to trade old coins for new 1812 commemorative ones. \" width=\"428\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Royal Canadian Mint is hold a coin swap at Brock on Monday for people to trade old coins for new 1812 commemorative ones. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Royal Canadian Mint has created five circulation coins to commemorate the defining moments of the War of 1812.<\/p>\n<p>And representatives from the Mint will be at Brock University on Monday, Oct. 15 to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the war with a coin exchange in Guernsey Market from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Staff and students are invited to trade in their pocket change at face value for the new coins.<\/p>\n<p>Today, the <a title=\"New Quarter\" href=\"(http:\/\/www.mint.ca\/store\/news\/news-16600007?cat=News+releases&amp;nId=700002&amp;pa rentnId=600004&amp;nodeGroup=About+the+Mint)\" target=\"_blank\">Mint unveiled a new circulation quarter honouring the memory of Maj.-Gen. Sir Isaac Brock.<\/a> This is the first of four circulation coins that commemorate key historical figures who influenced the fight for Canada from 1812 to 1814.<\/p>\n<p>The Royal Canadian Mint was also a sponsor of this year&#8217;s General Brock&#8217;s October Soir\u00e9e where guests were provided with a commemorative take away $2-dollar coin of the HMS Shannon.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Royal Canadian Mint\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mint.ca\/1812\" target=\"_blank\">Visit the Mint for more information.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Canadian Mint has created five circulation coins to commemorate the defining moments of the War of 1812. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":18846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[595,363,364],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18848,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18845\/revisions\/18848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}