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World Numismatics Record That's Worth Mentioning?

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 Posted 03/30/2013  08:06 am Show Profile   Bookmark this topic Add gxseries to your friends list Get a Link to this Message Number of Subscribers
I've been interested in numismatics, mints that have some bragging rights for instance world's largest gold coin, world's first platinum circulating coin, world's first bi-metal, tri-metal etc.

Here's some of my thoughts:

World's largest gold coin record trend: http://lunaticg.blogspot.com.au/201...ld-coin.html

World's first platinum coin was officially struck for circulation - Russia 1828 3 ruble

World's first tantalum (bimetal + silver) coin - Kazakhstan 2006 500 tenge

World's first antimony coin - China 1931 Kweichow 10 cash

World's first palladium coin - Sierra Leone 1966, set of 3 coins

World's first titanium coin - Gibraltar 1999 5 pounds

And so on. List can also be the world's most expensive coin of it's catagory. Would like to see interesting records.
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 Posted 03/30/2013  09:40 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add sel_69l to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
I have seen the one tonne gold coin in at the Perth Mint, where it is on public display.
You can walk right up to it and touch it.
It is about 1 metre in diameter, and about 4 or 5 inches thick.
It is cast, not struck.

It IS available for sale if you have enough idle fiat money lying about to purchase it!
It would have to be the World's most expensive numismatic item.
On current spot gold price, you will need about $51.4 million to buy it.

I have figured that the Tongan 1/4, 1/2 and One Hau of 1967 were the first palladium coins. That is what my copy of Krause reports.
If in fact that the 1966 Sierra Leone coins were the first, it seems to me that this issue must have been NCLT (as with the Tongan coins), but released in a range of metals which included palladium.

I remember seeing a set of the Tongan coins not long after release. They looked like cupronickel coins, however they were denominated in Hau.
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Local mint has new program called Coin Tune where they can mint coins with unique "sound". It's like ean code but every coin can have it's own and unique sound that can be read by machine. Then it is safer to use high face value coins without fear of fakes. I dont know yet what would be the first coin made in this program but I quess it would be a bit of sensation in Coin World.
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 Posted 03/31/2013  10:48 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add january1may to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
World's largest round copper coin: probably Russian 1777 "Sestroretsk" 1 ruble (I might be mistaken, but IIRC everything larger than that - such as the Swedish plate money - wasn't round, and early Roman Republic coppers, while round, never got quite that big).

...Anyone has any suggestions for the least face value coin ever produced for circulation? (I'm saying "for circulation" to exclude cases like Belarus (still) making their commemoratives with a face value of 1 ruble, which would've otherwise been the least face value coin still produced today; but as mentioned below, it's still not always obvious, and then we have cases like the Yugoslav 1994 dinar when it's hard to determine the coin's value at production because the currency hyperinflated wildly).
My personal suggestion: 2009 Russian 1 copeck, at circa 0.031 US cents [as of 2009; maybe 0.035 now]. I know the Philippine 1 sentimo is still produced, at a lesser face value, but calling it "for circulation" would be optimistic (or at least it was apparently never intended to circulate).
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