{"id":702,"date":"2011-10-27T17:40:53","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T06:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/?p=702"},"modified":"2011-10-27T17:40:53","modified_gmt":"2011-10-27T06:40:53","slug":"perth-mint-makes-worlds-biggest-gold-coin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/perth-mint-makes-worlds-biggest-gold-coin\/","title":{"rendered":"Perth Mint makes world&#039;s biggest gold coin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Perth Mint has unveiled the world&#8217;s largest and most valuable gold coin.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in at just over one tonne, the 99.99 per cent pure gold coin has been valued at more than $60 million.<\/p>\n<p>A team of a dozen people have worked since late last year to create the coin which measures 80 centimetres wide and 12 centimetres deep.<\/p>\n<p>Mint chief executive Ed Harbuz says the idea was to make it the biggest and best in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well the largest coin in the world up to now has been 100 kilograms, made by a competitor mint and we thought well, we&#8217;d better make it so much bigger that it&#8217;ll stay the biggest coin in the world for a long time,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we are still just a colony<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/globalfinance.zenfs.com\/images\/FIN_ANZ_ABC_ART_FTP_LIVE\/3604466-3604432-16x9-700x394_small.jpg\" alt=\"null\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Perth Mint has unveiled the world&#8217;s largest and most valuable gold coin. Weighing in at just over one tonne, the 99.99 per cent pure gold coin has been valued at more than $60 million. A team of a dozen people have worked since late last year to create the coin which measures 80 centimetres [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gold-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australian-gold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}