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 ______________________ THAT'S a coin! * Sorry, I just saw these and couldn't resist.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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Imagine rolling that down a sloped hallway
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Just for reference, the first "coin" is Canadian and weighs 100 kilos. The Australian "coin" is a tonne = 1000 kilos.
And both are at least .9999 pure gold. The Canadian example is .99999 pure if it matters on that scale.
Rolling that Australian piece down a hallway reminds me of the Indiana Jones boulder scene. Heads up!
In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
In Memory of Tootallious 3-31-1964 to 4-15-2020
In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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I'am happy , having this coin ..   Edited by Dorado
03/27/2017 06:22 am
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Do you think that a grading company would "slab" either of those monsters?
Calling 1000 Kg of gold is really silly. Why not just stamp a 400 oz gold bar, declare it a coin and sell it at a hefty premium?
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The 1-tonne gold coin was made as a gimmick, purely to beat the Canadians and break their record for "largest gold coin". They only made one (cast and sculpted, not struck, of course), carted it about for a bit as a showpiece and then promptly melted it down again and sold the gold off in more manageable chunks.
Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise, you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. - C. S. Lewis
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I think the Yaps might argue the point still.
Time don't fly, it bounds and leaps.
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Coin toss? Heads or Tails? 100 kilos equals 3215.07466 troy ounces at todays spot prices makes this worth $4,034,597.19 USD Yeah, it's gone !  |
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That's strange...so by some odd coincidence, it was stolen just a few hours before I posted that...  I promise I had nothing to do with it! I guess they should have made it a little heavier.  In Memory of Crazyb0 12-26-1951 to 7-27-2020
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In Memory of T-BOP 10-12-1949 to 1-19-2024
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In before FBI
I'll flip you for it, you flip the coin. Survive and you win.
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03/28/2017 12:25 pm
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If I am not mistaken, the RCM actually minted several of those coins because after they unveiled it at the Olympics in Vancouver, there were many enquiries to purchase them. |
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"Discovery follows discovery, each both raising and answering questions, each ending a long search, and each providing the new instruments for a new search." -- J. Robert OppenheimerContent of this post is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses...0/deed.en_USMy eBay store
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Edited by Cascade
03/28/2017 4:00 pm
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Posted 03/27/2017 03:47 am
