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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;chrisild, post: 776561, member: 39&quot;]That &quot;Europataler&quot; was made in two different versions - the &quot;giant one&quot;, with a total mintage of 5 (five), and an affordable one <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> with a mintage of 2008. That coinnews.net article has a few flaws anyway: &quot;produced by the Hall Mint, in cooperation with the Australian Mint and the (...)&quot; Well, fortunately the link does not take you to Australia but to Austria.</p><p><br /></p><p>And &quot;One of the large coins will go on display at the Hall of Tirol, Austria.&quot; Umm, the Hall is a city in the Tirol (or the Tyrol) which is in the Austria which is part of the Europe, hehe. Anyway, while that Europataler is a medal, the Austrian Mint did produce the world&#039;s largest gold coin, in 2004 (face value €100,000) but as you mentioned was &quot;passed&quot; by the Canadian Mint later. Now that 1000 oz piece was an actual coin ... although definitely not a business strike either. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>By the way, those German Billionen and English billions can play tricks. You mentioned &quot;the 100 Billion Mark authorized by the German City of Freital&quot;, and yes, 100 Milliarden is 100 billion indeed. But these for example are &quot;10 Billionen&quot; notgeld notes issued by the cities of <a href="http://i.ebayimg.com/07/!BiEeRs!B2k~$(KGrHqEH-DMEsJhYS,QQBLMm6OF!Gw~~_12.JPG" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://i.ebayimg.com/07/!BiEeRs!B2k~$(KGrHqEH-DMEsJhYS,QQBLMm6OF!Gw~~_12.JPG" rel="nofollow">Duisburg</a> and <a href="http://www.muenzauktion.com/monasterium/pic/090908056a.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.muenzauktion.com/monasterium/pic/090908056a.jpg" rel="nofollow">Kaiserslautern</a>. That would be 10,000 billion in English - ten trillion, I think. There may have been higher denominations in those days, don&#039;t know. And as you wrote, even &quot;bigger&quot; bills were issued in other countries ...</p><p><br /></p><p>Christian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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