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Old January 28th 10, 08:44 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
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Hello

I wonder how many Gold Coins could be made from this brick?

A visitor touches the world's largest solid gold brick
weighing 220kg (worth over US $7.8 million at today's
price), at the Jinguashi Gold Museum in Ruifang, Taipei
county, on December 2, 2009. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

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http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...1_21295619.jpg

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Old January 28th 10, 09:20 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
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Arizona Coin Collector wrote:
Hello

I wonder how many Gold Coins could be made from this brick?

A visitor touches the world's largest solid gold brick
weighing 220kg (worth over US $7.8 million at today's
price), at the Jinguashi Gold Museum in Ruifang, Taipei
county, on December 2, 2009. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

Link to Image:
http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...1_21295619.jpg


One 220kg coin, 220,000 1g coins, or several other possibilities in between.

James the Apothecary


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Old January 29th 10, 06:34 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
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In article , "Mr. Jaggers" lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Arizona Coin Collector wrote:
Hello

I wonder how many Gold Coins could be made from this brick?

A visitor touches the world's largest solid gold brick
weighing 220kg (worth over US $7.8 million at today's
price), at the Jinguashi Gold Museum in Ruifang, Taipei
county, on December 2, 2009. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

Link to Image:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...ture/gold_01_2
0/g01_21295619.jpg

One 220kg coin, 220,000 1g coins, or several other possibilities in between.

James the Apothecary


wouldn't that be pretty small?
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Old January 29th 10, 07:01 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
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in wrote:
In article , "Mr. Jaggers"
lugburzman[at]yahoo[dot]com wrote:
Arizona Coin Collector wrote:
Hello

I wonder how many Gold Coins could be made from this brick?

A visitor touches the world's largest solid gold brick
weighing 220kg (worth over US $7.8 million at today's
price), at the Jinguashi Gold Museum in Ruifang, Taipei
county, on December 2, 2009. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

Link to Image:

http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...ture/gold_01_2
0/g01_21295619.jpg

One 220kg coin, 220,000 1g coins, or several other possibilities in
between.

James the Apothecary


wouldn't that be pretty small?


The U.S. gold dollar was 1.672g. The California fractionals would have all
been less than a gram apiece. So, yup, pretty small, but not without
precedent.

James the Numismatic Historian


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Old February 2nd 10, 07:39 PM posted to rec.collecting.coins
Tony Clayton[_2_]
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In a recent message "Arizona Coin Collector" wrote:

Hello

I wonder how many Gold Coins could be made from this brick?

A visitor touches the world's largest solid gold brick
weighing 220kg (worth over US $7.8 million at today's
price), at the Jinguashi Gold Museum in Ruifang, Taipei
county, on December 2, 2009. (SAM YEH/AFP/Getty Images)

Link to Image:
http://inapcache.boston.com/universa...1_21295619.jpg

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Its sheer weight will make it quite hard to nick, and
it is small enough to prevent too many people getting round it!

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