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How long until this baby melts? - 1 Tonne Gold sets Guinness record

LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭
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Obviously a PR stunt to drive sales. Any bets on how long it takes Perth Mint to melt this behemoth? image

1 Tonne Aussie Gold Coin sets Guinness record

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    LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭
    What, nobody interested in investing $51 million in a single gold coin the size of a real-life giant panda? image
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,029 ✭✭✭✭✭
    And they can make the gold into coins with a special hallmark that signifies

    "Formerly part of the coin that made the Guinness Book of World Records!"
    Numismatist. 54 year member ANA. Former ANA Senior Authenticator. Winner of four ANA Heath Literary Awards; three Wayte and Olga Raymond Literary Awards; Numismatist of the Year Award 2009, and ANA Lifetime Achievement Award 2020. Also won the PNG's Robert Friedberg Award for "The Enigmatic Lincoln Cents of 1922," Available now from Whitman or Amazon.
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    LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭
    Exactly! I'd consider buying one for a moment image

    Kinda like the WTC coins, piece of history image
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    WeissWeiss Posts: 9,942 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Didn't Australia or Canada do this same thing a couple of years back?

    IIRC, they're cast, not struck. Call me a purist, but regardless of size, if it's not struck I don't really see it as a coin.
    We are like children who look at print and see a serpent in the last letter but one, and a sword in the last.
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    Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    How am I suppose to fit this thing in
    my pocket !!!
    Timbuk3
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    StaircoinsStaircoins Posts: 2,590 ✭✭✭✭
    You should see the size of the roll!

    "I'll take a monster box, please."image
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    BAJJERFANBAJJERFAN Posts: 31,645 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Why would you expend all of that effort to make it and then melt it?
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    AhrensdadAhrensdad Posts: 2,583 ✭✭✭
    Now that's the kind of Yap money I like. image
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    CaptHenwayCaptHenway Posts: 34,029 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>Why would you expend all of that effort to make it and then melt it? >>



    Publicity?
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    LochNESSLochNESS Posts: 4,829 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Why would you expend all of that effort to make it and then melt it? >>



    Just a matter of time before they need to cut into it. It'll never sell. They will melt and make regular-sized coins for sale. Matter of time.
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