Zlatá minca o hmotnosti 5kg

Ruská banka pri príležitosti 150 ročných osláv svojho vzniku vydala mince o hmotnosti 5kg. Kto si ju bude chcieť kúpiť, bude musieť zaplatiť US$200,000 (10% poplatok pre banku je už v cene). Nie je to však svetový rekord. Ten drží Kanada s mincou o hmotnosti 100kg.

The new coin can be owned only by wealthy collectors. Commerce banks will have to pay the price of gold plus a commission for production costs. One gram of gold today costs 1,187 rubles (about $40). Therefore, a five-kilo coin will cost not less than 6 million rubles ($200,000, the price includes a 10-percent commission of the bank).

It is worthy of note that Russia’s most valuable coin does not beat world records. China released a coin worth 100,000 yuans on the threshold of the Olympic Games in Beijing. The Chinese coin was twice as heavy as the Russian one. China released only 29 of such coins; one of them was sold in Russia. The world’s largest coin weighing 100 kilos was made in Canada.

Článok: http://english.pravda.ru/business/finance/19-05-2010/113435-bank_of_russia-0

22.05.2010