By Andrew Liszewski
If you’ve ever visited Canada you’ll know the $1 and $2 coins they use can be a bit annoying since they tend to weigh down your pockets. But as usual it’s the millionaires around the world that suffer the most. A few weeks ago the Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a giant gold coin with a face value of $1 million CDN.
Weighing in at a pocket-bursting 220.5 pounds (or 100 kilograms) the extra-large pizza-sized coin is claimed to now hold the record for the world’s largest and highest denomination. It’s also the purest ever produced with a 99.999 percent purity level. Oddly enough with the current price of gold the coin is actually worth twice the $1 million face value which makes it seem like a pretty good investment as long as you’re willing to break the law and deface or destroy official currency.
Understandably the coin is being produced in a very limited quantity so don’t expect to stumble across one in your change bowl some day.
[ Spare any change? Canada unveils C$1 million coin ] VIA [ Geekologie ]
Wow, such a massive coin, and its 99.9% pure gold, this is a rich coin collectors dream, a coin like this is a good investment since its gold, and the vaule of gold keeps going up. Very good post!
what's the actual size of this thing? like a plate?
In the lower left hand corner there are gold ingots that look to be 400 ounce London Good Delivery bars for size comparison… This is one massive coin.
In the lower left hand corner there are gold ingots that look to be 400 ounce London Good Delivery bars for size comparison… This is one massive coin.