The largest ever gold coin has been unveiled in Perth, Australia. The coin weighs an incredible 1000kg!
The coin was produced by the Perth Mint, in time for Queen Elizabeth’s visit to Perth for a Commonwealth heads of governments meeting.
The coin features the Queen’s head on one side and a kangaroo on the other. The coin is 12cm thick and almost 80cm in diameter.
The CEo of Perth Mint, Ed Harbuz, said the coin was ‘an incredible challenge, one which few other mints would even consider’.
The previous world’s largest gold coin is only a fifth of the mass of the Australian one. The previous one was made by the Royal Canadian Mint.
Harbuz added ‘We thought well, we’d better make it so much bigger that it’ll stay the biggest coin in the world for a long time.’
Fair point, if your going to make a coin to be the worlds largest then you may as well do it so it stays the record holder for a long time.
The coin is 99.99% pure gold, guaranteed by the West Australian Government. It has nominal value of 1 million Australian Dollars. However, the gold is currently worth more than 50 million Australian Dollars!