Largest gold coin sells for £2.68m
The world's largest gold coin has been sold at auction in Austria for 3.27 million euros (£2.68 million).
The coin is a 2007 maple leaf coin with a face value of a million Canadian dollars (£640,000). It weighs 220lb and has a diameter of 21in.
It went under the hammer at Austria's prestigious Dorotheum auction house. It was pocketed by Spanish precious metal trading company Oro Direct.
The Dorotheum said on its website that the impressive sum the coin fetched was largely influenced by the high price of gold.
