A 100kg gold coin is seen next to gold bars and smaller gold coins in an undated publicity photo from the Royal Canadian Mint. The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Thursday -- a monster gold coin (the size of an extra large pizza) with a face value of C$1 million (455,000 pounds) that it says is the world's biggest, purest and highest denomination coin.
Weighing in at 100 kilograms (220.5 pounds), the limited edition coin easily dwarfs its closest rival, the 31 kg (68 pound) "Big Phil", which was made to honour the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.
While it has a C$1 million face value, the coin is worth more than twice that amount given the current gold price of $683.30 an ounce.
I'm thinking about getting two and using them as book ends.
3 comments:
Wish i had one of those, I could unwrap it and have a lot of chocolate.
no, you couldn't. It's solid gold. That's why it cost 1 million dollars. Get it. It's a lot of gold.
I though it was just real good chocolate, maybe from Sweden or something. So I though you meant by the 1 million dollars was that it was real rich chocolate like from the Chocolate nuttery or Marshville, anyway I would let the melt in my mouth and not in my hands.
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