{"id":394023,"date":"2022-12-01T08:32:26","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=394023"},"modified":"2022-12-01T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-12-01T08:53:42","slug":"the-royal-mint-unveils-a-rolling-stones-coin-to-mark-the-band-s-60-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/the-royal-mint-unveils-a-rolling-stones-coin-to-mark-the-band-s-60-year-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"The Royal Mint unveils a Rolling Stones coin to mark the band&#8217;s 60-year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON &#8212; They want money &#8212; that&#8217;s what they want, that&#8217;s what they want. Well, now the Rolling Stones can say they&#8217;re also ON money, the face of a new collectible coin issued by Britain&#8217;s Royal Mint to celebrate the band&#8217;s 60th anniversary. The new 5-pound ($6.04) coin features a silhouette image of the iconic band performing &#8212; frontman Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood, and the late drummer Charlie Watts &#8212; as well as the band&#8217;s name in what is described as their classic 1973 font. The mint said it was one of the last coins of the year to be released bearing the image of Queen Elizabeth II, who died in September at age 96. The Rolling Stones were back on the road this year with their 2022 European &#8220;Sixty&#8221; tour, ending in Berlin in August. &#8220;We are delighted to be honored by way of an official UK coin,&#8221; the band said in a statement included<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coin honoring the Rolling Stones is the fifth in the Royal Mint&#8217;s &#8220;Music Legends'&#8221; series that celebrates British artists. Others so honored have been Queen, Elton John, David Bowie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,108,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-394023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrities","category-lifestyle","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394023\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}