{"id":678,"date":"2005-12-03T07:17:48","date_gmt":"2005-12-03T11:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/12\/03\/hello-kitty-old-money-into-new\/"},"modified":"2005-12-03T07:17:48","modified_gmt":"2005-12-03T11:17:48","slug":"hello-kitty-old-money-into-new","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/12\/03\/hello-kitty-old-money-into-new\/","title":{"rendered":"Hello Kitty &#8211; Old Money into New"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a7506'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"286\">\n<p align=\"justify\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/kitmon.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"256\" align=\"left\">TOKYO &#8211; Coin importer Taisei Coins Corp<br \/>\n        and Sanrio Co said Wednesday that they will jointly sell three euro coins<br \/>\n        with images of the latter&#8217;s &quot;Hello Kitty&quot; character on them,<br \/>\n        beginning on Dec 5.<\/p>\n<p>      A 1-ounce gold coin with a face value of 50 euros will cost 168,000 yen.<br \/>\n      A quarter-ounce, 10-euro gold coin will cost 52,500 yen, and a 1.5-euro<br \/>\n      silver coin will cost 8,400 yen. Images on the coins, made by the Monnaie<br \/>\n      de Paris minting authority in France, depict &quot;Hello Kitty&quot; characters<br \/>\n      enjoying life in Paris.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>As economists have often noted, the preeminent position<br \/>\n        of the dollar as a currency for international trade is a main factor<br \/>\n        in the continued dominance of the US economy in the world economic system.&nbsp;Isn&#8217;t<br \/>\n        it just like those sneaky Europeans to woo our little Asian brothers<br \/>\n        from beneath our protective economic embrace by such an insidious tactic<br \/>\n        as PUTTING A JAPANESE CULTURAL ICON ON EUROPEAN MONEY!<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Look for the US to retaliate with &quot;Great Wall of<br \/>\n          China&quot; fifties and a new Saudi King Abdullah thousand dollar bill.&nbsp;Actually,<br \/>\n        for the latest redesign of US currency, see the very next story&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.japantoday.com\/e\/?content=news&amp;cat=3&amp;id=356938\">Japan Today<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO &#8211; Coin importer Taisei Coins Corp and Sanrio Co said Wednesday that they will jointly sell three euro coins with images of the latter&#8217;s &quot;Hello Kitty&quot; character on them, beginning on Dec 5. A 1-ounce gold coin with a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/12\/03\/hello-kitty-old-money-into-new\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1442],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}