{"id":1662,"date":"2013-09-30T09:19:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T09:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/?p=1662"},"modified":"2017-09-06T20:20:38","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T20:20:38","slug":"golden-dragons-from-the-shire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/2013\/09\/30\/golden-dragons-from-the-shire\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Dragons From the Shire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At worldcon this year, Tom Maringer and his bawdy band of coinsmiths debuted three new coins, the first &quot;golden&quot; dragons from Shire Post Mint.<\/p>\n<p>They even did a video about it:<\/p>\n<p>&lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;369&#8243; \/&gt;<\/p>\n<p>These dragon coins bear the likenesses of Jaehaerys I Targaryen (the Old King), the pretender Daemon I Blackfyre, and Joffrey I Baratheon.<\/p>\n<p>(No, silly, they&#39;re not made of real gold.&nbsp; If they were, they would be considerably more expensive.&nbsp; They look good, though; bright and shiny with a nice heft to them.&nbsp; And if there is enough demand, Shire Post Mint might even do a short run in real gold for collectors willing to pay the price.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At worldcon this year, Tom Maringer and his bawdy band of coinsmiths debuted three new coins, the first &quot;golden&quot; dragons from Shire Post Mint. They even did a video about it: &lt;lj-embed id=&#8221;369&#8243; \/&gt; These dragon coins bear the likenesses of Jaehaerys I Targaryen (the Old King), the pretender Daemon I Blackfyre, and Joffrey I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[50,241,238,180,16,83],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1663,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1662\/revisions\/1663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/georgerrmartin.com\/notablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}