The world's largest gold coin.

The world's largest gold coin is the one-ton Australian kangaroo coin, produced in 2011 by the Perth Mint in Western Australia.

A coin depicting one ton of Australian kangaroos. Photo: Expedia

As its name suggests, this kangaroo-shaped coin weighs one ton, the equivalent of the weight of approximately 11 kangaroos, and contains 99.99% pure gold. Produced to commemorate the mint's series of gold kangaroo coins in circulation since 1989, the coin has a face value of 1 million Australian dollars (US$648,000), making it the world's largest legal tender (used to settle debts or financial obligations denominated in that currency), according to IFL Science .

This coin is 12 cm thick and 80 cm high. Its impressive size, purity, and record-breaking status mean that although the coin is valued at 1 million Australian dollars, the current market value of the gold used to mint it is approximately 110,055,898 Australian dollars (71,429,850 USD), so its true value is much higher than its face value.

Entering the Guinness World Records a year after its release, the coin was exhibited around Asia and Europe in 2014, even making its way to New York on a one-day trip in 2019 to promote the Perth Mint's investment fund, the Perth Mint Physical Gold (AAAU). The mint also owns several smaller kangaroo coins, including a 28g coin with a face value of 100 Australian dollars (US$65).

The previous record belonged to a 99.7 kg Canadian coin called The Big Maple Leaf. It was the first of five identical coins minted in 2007. It had a face value of 1 million Canadian dollars (US$741,000), but like the kangaroo coin, its real value far exceeded that.

"We thought it best to create a coin so much larger that it would hold the title of the world's largest coin for a long time," Ed Harbuz, CEO of the Perth Mint, once shared. "Minting and handcrafting a coin of this size and weight is a unique challenge that very few other mints would consider."

Australia, home to the largest gold nugget ever found, sparked one of the world's biggest gold rushes of the 19th century, and its vast gold reserves are still being actively mined today. The total amount of gold ever discovered on Earth could fit inside a cube with sides measuring 23 meters.

An Khang (According to IFL Science )

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