Australia has a bit of a reputation for having some of the ‘Largest’ things in the world.<\/p>\n
Often these are kitsch representations of some local industry or icon like ‘The Big Pineapple’ or ‘The Giant Koala; you get the idea.<\/p>\n
When I was told I was about to see the worlds largest coin (legal tender) in the Perth Mint I was not expecting what I was about to see.<\/p>\n
One thousand kilograms of 99.99% pure gold crafted into a single legal tender coin with a face value of one million dollars and a true gold value well over $54,000,000.<\/p>\n
I considered for a moment if there was a way I might roll it out of there but suspect its shear weight is all the theft protection it needs.<\/p>\n
Australia might have a lot of kitsch ‘Big’ things but this coin is not one of them.<\/p>\n
Photo: Robert Rath, ‘One Million Dollars’ 1\/80s f\/1.4 ISO2500 50mm<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Australia has a bit of a reputation for having some of the ‘Largest’ things in the world. Often these are kitsch representations of some local industry or icon like ‘The Big Pineapple’ or ‘The Giant Koala; you get the idea. When I was told I was about to see the worlds largest coin (legal tender) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1695,35,1699,1696,1698,1697,1700,1688,175,1694],"class_list":["post-6255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coin","tag-gold","tag-largest","tag-largestcoin","tag-legaltender","tag-million","tag-perth","tag-perthmint","tag-sculpture","tag-westernaustralia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6257,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6255\/revisions\/6257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wetshutter.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}