The 100 kg pure fine gold coin – at the Museum of Fine Arts, Vienna
On 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 😉 Augmented value :))
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!