{"id":17925,"date":"2015-08-09T09:10:13","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T08:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17925"},"modified":"2015-08-09T09:10:13","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T08:10:13","slug":"how-much-can-you-legally-pay-in-coins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17925","title":{"rendered":"How much can you legally pay in coins?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend has drawn my attention the little-known legal position. According to the Coinage Act of 1971, the position is as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding 20p<\/li>\n<li>2p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding 20p<\/li>\n<li>5p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding \u00a35<\/li>\n<li>10p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding \u00a35<\/li>\n<li>20p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding \u00a310<\/li>\n<li>50p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding \u00a310<\/li>\n<li>\u00a31 &#8211; for any amount<\/li>\n<li>\u00a32 &#8211; for any amount<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So now you know. Personally I am trying to avoid the use of coins by using a contactless credit card for as many small purchases as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend has drawn my attention the little-known legal position. According to the Coinage Act of 1971, the position is as follows: 1p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding 20p 2p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding 20p 5p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding \u00a35 10p &#8211; for any amount not exceeding \u00a35 20p [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17925"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17927,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925\/revisions\/17927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}