The 100 kg pure fine gold coin – at the Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna
by LoriOn the top floor of the art gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts (Kunsthistorisches Museum) in Vienna, Austria (which I’ll present in a different post) there is a very interesting exhibition including a 100 kg pure fine gold coin. This coin was unveiled in May, 3rd 2007 by the Royal Canadian Mint. The designer was artist Stanley Witten, and the coin has a value of $1 million Canadian dollars. Here are some pictures of this promotional tool for Royal Canadian Mint – of course, as you can imagine, the coin is isolated in a reinforced glass cage (and protected by other security measures as well… But c’mon, who could possibly lift 100 kg without some serious equipment? 
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haha! Can I get it? then, sell it to pay my RTW fair?
Amazing thing!
We don’t have it.
We do have some monumental coins but much smaller.
We were surprised when we saw it too! Yes, imagine having one – not only sell it – but auction it
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Now seriously it was indeed something different, a curiosity – because even in Romania (and in many other countries) we saw special money (paper or coins) editions, but never such a coin: 100 kg pure 24 K gold!