Post Your Biggest/Heaviest Gold (or Silver) Coin/Medal

Imagine Mughal Emperor Jahangir struck AV 1000/ 500 Mohur gold coins/ 1000M weighed 35 POUNDS!

 

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Wow!

 

Imagine what those would sell for!

 

For the world gold coins, it's a tie between these two.

A 1902 Edward VII five pounds piece in Matte Proof.



And a 1937 George VI five pounds coronation set in Cameo Proof



If you include U.S. coins, it's these two Panama - Parcific $50 gold pieces. They each contain close to 2 and a half ounces of gold.

 

Those two $50 Dollar 1915 Commeratives are beautifull.

 

My biggest Gold coin is this French Empire Gold 100 Francs of Napoleon III (minted in Paris in 1864), it weighs 32,24 grams:

 

The Frederick A. Lorenz Medal is an award of the Steel Founders Society of America. The society was founded in 1902 with membership limited to companies that are steel foundries. The steel Founders Society of America, states that this medal is a memorial medal first issued in 1938 to commemorate the late President of the Society Frederick A. Lorenz who served 1934-1938. The medal may be awarded annually by unanimous vote of the Society Board of Directors to an employee of a member company for outstanding service to the industry. The Society Presidents and Board Members are usually the presidents and officers of the Society’s member companies. In most instances (but not always) the Lorenz Medal was awarded to retiring Society Presidents. The big boys really know how to take care of each other!
This Lorenz Medal was awarded on Feb. 12, 1942 to
Donald C.(ampbell) Bakewell. Mr. Bakewell was the Vice-President of the Blaw-Knox Co. and the retiring Society President in 1941. The medal is 10k gold, 60mm in diameter and 105.69 grams in weight and designed by Julio Kilenyi who also designed the U. S. Steel Corp. long service medals, the obverse features Frederick A. Lorenz’s portrait within the legend “FREDERICK A. LORENZ. STEEL FOUNDERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA.” The reverse has some factories and a steam train in the top half above the inscription “FOR MERITORIOUS SERVICE TO THE STEEL CASTING INDUSTRY AWARDED TO “ and the engraved recipient’s name above the Society logo and the words “INTEGRITY RESEARCH PROGRESS.”
I wonder how many rare industrial super medals have survived the recent high gold prices.

 

Chad AV 20000 Francs/ 70g. 55mm. part of my 5 coin Proof set.

 

You've really got some monumental chunks of gold...

 

Yeah/ from the good old days when gold was $300 an oz.

 

300$ per oz. really was the good old days price. People thought that $300 was very high and offered a lot of gold medals on ebay while at the same time the buyers did not want to spend that much. I had a field day buying medals and badges. My friends asked me why back then but now they know.

 

Thats a cool medal @FredJB I recently bought a 40 yrs service, United States Steel Corporation. Given to an Arther E Resch. It's not heavy enough to be in this thread. Mine also has a train theme to it.

 

Thanks! The USSteel Long service medals are very interesting too. With all the variations it is a massive collection. I wrote them up years ago, somewhere.

 

Here is my 1 Kilo Silver Kookaburra Proof, alongside a 1 oz Kookaburra

 

One kilo silver, not gold? Cheapskate.

 

My 3rd biggest Gold coin, Chinese Panda Gold 100 Yuan (minted in Shenyang in 1988), it weighs 31,1 grams: