40 Massive People, Animals, and Objects We Didn’t Realize Could Get This Big

When you see this coin, you immediately and instinctively know what it is, yet immediately and instinctively dismiss it as ludicrous. It can’t possibly be pure gold, can it? That’d be so expensive. Well, indeed it is pure gold – 99.9%. And it is expensive -$53.5 million (value as of 2012).

This is the World’s Largest legal-tender Coin. While the gold contained within it is valued at $53.5 million, its nominal value as a coin is just $1 million AUD. So, as far as I understand it, whoever uses this coin to make a purchase would be losing a great deal of money.