Taking a cue from Canada and their ridiculously huge 100-kg $1,000,000 gold coin, the Europeans have minted the world's largest silver coin - the Europe Taler 2008. This coin weighs 20.08 kg and is 36 cm in diameter. (For the mathematically challenged, that is over 44 pounds and over 14" in diameter.) The design protrays "important people" from the past 500 years (apparently all European). These include: Martin Luther -translated the Bible Antonio Vivaldi - composer James Watt - inventor of the steam engine Bertha von Suttner - pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner You can read the article here.
The article did not say. You should contact the Austrian Mint. I'm sure they would quote you a price.
well those guys are lazy if they had made this thing a few months ago :sigh: i know 5 kilo silver plates are not that expensive i am thinking this should be about $10k
Should have made it a 40kg coin then maybe they would have got more than 4 people on it. Should have been one coin for european composers another for inventors (Da Vinci?) then literature types (Shakespeare?) etc.
Well, Canada got the idea (to make a huge gold coin) from Austria - the Austrian Mint issued its "Big Phil" (1,000 oz) gold coin in 2004, and the Canadian Mint apparently needed to beat that later. This silver thing, however, is not a coin - that is, it's not a government issue, not legal tender, no face value. Don't know how much the 20 kilo beast costs, but the smaller one (120 g) is about €100 ... The obverse is basically a replica of a 1508 Double Guldiner. The reverse has the original inscription along the edge; that was the first coin which mentioned "Europa". More about the piece is here: http://www.europataler.at/ Christian
