One Tonne Gold Coin

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The Largest Gold Coin in the World: 1 Ton Gold Kangaroo​

The first of the biggest gold coins is the 2011 One Ton Australian Kangaroo gold coin created by the Perth Mint in Western Australia to showcase the mint’s popular gold Kangaroo series that began in 1989. The coin, whose reverse design of a bounding red kangaroo surrounded by stylized rays of sunlight was created by Stuart Devlin, is the world’s largest, heaviest and most valuable gold coin with over 2,200 pounds of 99.99% pure gold.

It has a diameter of a whopping 80 centimeters, or almost three feet, and is almost five inches thick.
Although its face value is
only $1 million AUD....

(It's really worth a lot more based on today's gold prices)

 

[basstracker89]

Back the truck up to the dock!!........🤣

 

[Jackie Graham]

It's free to anyone that can carry out by hand. No tools or equipment allowed, lol

 

[basstracker89]

It's free to anyone that can carry out by hand. No tools or equipment allowed, lol

Plenty of people would die tryin......
There was a time I could've given it a good run for the money. Not the strongest in the world, but.......

 

[Jackie Graham]

I would get a hernia just thinking about it, lol

 

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I can't wrap my head around the weight of something the size of a manhole cover but three times thicker weighing over a ton.

So let me compare gold to something I know better: a rectangular cement building block. TYPE: solid, nominally 16 inches long 8 inches wide and 4 inches thick.

Also called a "cap block."

These weigh about 34 pounds each.
Concrete and cement are really dense and heavy materials right??


Well, gold has a density of 19.3 g/cm³.
Nineteen and 3/10 grams of mass (weight) per cubic centimeter (of volume).


I calculated the volume of a cement building block as described above, having metric dimensions of roughly 20 cm x 40 cm and a thickness of 10 cm.

VOLUME: that block has 8000 cm³ of volume in it.

If it were made of gold instead of cement,
it would weigh 154,400 grams or 154 kg.

That's 340 pounds.
That's 10X the weight of the cement version we are all familiar with.

Can you imagine a gold bar the size of a concrete cap block that could not be lifted by even two men?

 

[basstracker89]

I can't wrap my head around the weight of something the size of a manhole cover but three times thicker weighing over a ton.

So let me compare gold to something I know better: a rectangular cement building block. TYPE: solid, nominally 16 inches long 8 inches wide and 4 inches thick.

View attachment 9712401

Also called a "cap block."

These weigh about 34 pounds each.
Concrete and cement are really dense and heavy materials right??


Well, gold has a density of 19.3 g/cm³.
Nineteen and 3/10 grams of mass (weight) per cubic centimeter (of volume).


I calculated the volume of a cement building block as described above, having metric dimensions of roughly 20 cm x 40 cm and a thickness of 10 cm.

VOLUME: that block has 8000 cm³ of volume in it.

If it were made of gold instead of cement,
it would weigh 154,400 grams or 154 kg.

That's 340 pounds.
That's 10X the weight of the cement version we are all familiar with.

Can you imagine a gold bar the size of a concrete cap block that could not be lifted by even two men?

Depends on the man. I wish I had a couple bricks that large. What an investment

 

[basstracker89]

I would get a hernia just thinking about it, lol

I already have the hernia. I didn't have to think about it........

 

[RomeWolf]

I can't wrap my head around the weight of something the size of a manhole cover but three times thicker weighing over a ton.

So let me compare gold to something I know better: a rectangular cement building block. TYPE: solid, nominally 16 inches long 8 inches wide and 4 inches thick.

View attachment 9712401

Also called a "cap block."

These weigh about 34 pounds each.
Concrete and cement are really dense and heavy materials right??


Well, gold has a density of 19.3 g/cm³.
Nineteen and 3/10 grams of mass (weight) per cubic centimeter (of volume).


I calculated the volume of a cement building block as described above, having metric dimensions of roughly 20 cm x 40 cm and a thickness of 10 cm.

VOLUME: that block has 8000 cm³ of volume in it.

If it were made of gold instead of cement,
it would weigh 154,400 grams or 154 kg.

That's 340 pounds.
That's 10X the weight of the cement version we are all familiar with.

Can you imagine a gold bar the size of a concrete cap block that could not be lifted by even two men?

College roommate of mine had a lead brick from an old hospital x Ray room wall. It was a standard house brick size. Used it as a door stop. That thing weighed 25 lbs. Lead has a density of ONLY 11.36 g/cm3. Freaked you out when you moved it.

I always laugh when watching movies or tv where thieves are tossing gold bars in bags and toting them out. Standard gold bars are smaller than bricks and they weigh around 27 lbs.

 

[basstracker89]

College roommate of mine had a lead brick from an old hospital x Ray room wall. It was a standard house brick size. Used it as a door stop. That thing weighed 25 lbs. Lead has a density of ONLY 11.36 g/cm3. Freaked you out when you moved it.

I always laugh when watching movies or tv where thieves are tossing gold bars in bags and toting them out. Standard gold bars are smaller than bricks and they weigh around 27 lbs.

Funny how we pick up on reality as we get older