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World's largest gold coin

MakaroviiMakarovii Posts: 336
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All 1000 ounces of it!
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  • oldshepoldshep Posts: 3,240 ✭
    imageimage Zowie!!!
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  • spoonspoon Posts: 2,798 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Too big to be struck on the normal coining presses, the world's largest gold coin had to be to be sculpted by computerised milling machines and finished by hand. -- link >>

    Hmm.. I was wondering about that.

    Still pretty cool! image

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
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    Can't really be judged as a coin, of course... more of a representational sculpture perhaps, but, maybe not; there is the Yap Stone Money from Micronesia roughly 10' and weighing up to 1000's of pounds to consider; if they were coins then I guess this is too.
    Certainly interesting to see. I wonder what the ultimate fate of this piece is; to be melted down when the goldholders hit their $1000 an oz dream?
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  • trozautrozau Posts: 3,455 ✭✭✭
    Dang! I've died and gone to heaven! image
    trozau (troy ounce gold)
  • MacCrimmonMacCrimmon Posts: 7,058 ✭✭✭
    I'll pay 100,000 Euros for that!! image
  • ZulanZulan Posts: 224
    Yeah... um... that is nicer than the one I have. I think someone used mine as a pocket piece for awhile. image
  • 291fifth291fifth Posts: 24,432 ✭✭✭✭✭
    What a waste of good gold.
    All glory is fleeting.
  • earlwbollingerearlwbollinger Posts: 1,304
    Now that's a coin!!
    Betcha they can't snatch and grab and run out the door with that baby.

    Does anyone remember how big that huge Middle Eastern coin that was shown on the forum was?
    I thought it was larger and heavier than this one.
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  • AquilaRoseAquilaRose Posts: 218
    I wanna take a big bite out of it. I just know there is chocolate under the surface!
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  • Conder101Conder101 Posts: 10,536 ✭
    If you mean the 1000 mohur piece, it is a little less than half the size of this piece. 467 troy oz
  • poorguypoorguy Posts: 4,317 ✭
    Eh, use it to weigh down the good stuff in your home safe. image
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  • earlwbollingerearlwbollinger Posts: 1,304
    I wonder what the raw plate of gold weighed before the machining took place?
    Curious as to how much they carved and polished off of that baby.
    Makes you wish you could be there for the floor shavings...image

    Hummm...I wonder if I could get it PCGS graded and slabbed too?
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  • MakaroviiMakarovii Posts: 336


    << <i>Hummm...I wonder if I could get it PCGS graded and slabbed too? >>



    Now that would be something to see! image
    Potestas Democraticorum delenda est!
    Joel 3:10

    “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But under the name of ‘liberalism’ they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a Socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” -Socialist Party presidential candidate Norman Thomas

    “We Are All Socialists Now" - Feb 16, 2009 cover of Newsweek Magazine
  • lordmarcovanlordmarcovan Posts: 43,648 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>The diameter is 37 cm (14.5 inches) >>




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  • syraqsyraq Posts: 633
    image I wouldn't mind driving a car with four of them. Of course, I'd have to ask lordM to drill a hole in each first. image
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