{"id":264013,"date":"2016-08-27T00:20:44","date_gmt":"2016-08-27T00:20:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/5th-century-coin-now-hate\/"},"modified":"2016-08-27T15:33:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-27T15:33:37","slug":"5th-century-coin-now-hate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/5th-century-coin-now-hate\/","title":{"rendered":"5th Century Coin Now \u201cHate\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>In another example of political correctness gone mad, an eBay auction of a 5th Century Thracian coin with a swastika has been halted on the grounds that it was \u201chateful or discriminatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The coin, being sold by one of Europe\u2019s largest coin auction houses, was minted in the city of Apollonia Pontica, located in present-day Bulgaria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.antiquestradegazette.com\/news\/2016\/ancient-coin-banned-from-ebay-due-to-nazi-like-symbol\/\" target=\"_blank\">According to an article in the <\/a><em>Antiques Trade Gazette,<\/em> eBay cancelled the auction on the grounds that the listing was \u201chateful or discriminatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Munich-based auctioneer Numismatik Lanz listed the coin on the site earlier this month but was told it was classed among objects that \u201cglorify or trivialize National Socialism\u201d which eBay prohibits on its German site.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"http:\/\/newobserveronline.com\/5th-century-coin-now-hate\/\">full story.<\/a><\/p>\n<section>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In another example of political correctness gone mad, an eBay auction of a 5th Century Thracian coin with a swastika has been halted on the grounds that it was \u201chateful or discriminatory.\u201d The coin, being sold by one of Europe\u2019s largest coin auction houses, was minted in the city of Apollonia Pontica, located in present-day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264013","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}