World's Biggest Gold Coin Minted In Australia

First time accepted submitter shocking writes "The Perth Mint has created a gold coin that is just over one tonne in weight and worth over 50 million AUD. From the article: 'A team of a dozen people have worked since late last year to create the coin which measures 80 centimeters wide and 12 centimeters deep, featuring a kangaroo on one side and the Queen's motif on the other.' Ron Paul eat your heart out!"

Comments

Now they need to...

[Anonymous Coward]

...build the world's biggest couch so it can fall between the cushions.

Re:Featuring...what ???

[Warwick Allison]

All Australian coins have Her Majesty's Royal Jowls on the Heads side. What's is conspicuously missing is the denomination (5 billion cents) on the Tails. I guess they didn't have the guts to speculate on its intrinsic value. So is it really a coin then, or just a medallion?

Douglas Adams saw this coming

[Alioth]

It's funny how Hitch-hiker stuff seems to have a bearing on real life so often...

"...and the Triganic Pu has its own very special problems. Its exchange rate of eight Ningis to one Pu is simple enough, but since a Ningi is a triangular rubber coin six thousand eight hundred miles along each side, no one has ever collected enough to own one Pu. Ningis are not negotiable currency, because the Galactibanks refuse to deal in fiddling small change"

And I bet the banks would refuse to deal with this gigantic gold coin.