1. World’s Largest Gold Bar
The Mitsubishi Materials Corporation of Japan poured the World’s largest Gold bar. The bar is 17.9 inches by 8.9 inches and 6.7 inches high. All though it takes up the same amount of space as a large shoe box, you would not be able to lift it as It weighs 551.15 pounds. At the time it was poured it was worth $3.7 million.
Amazing Pictures of Money
2. $10,000 Dollar Bill
Yes it is real. The Federal Reserve used it to transfer money to and from banks and was never issued to the public. They also produced a $500, $1,000, $5,000 and even a $100,000 dollar note, see below. They were last printed in 1945 and have since been discontinued.
3. $100,000 Dollar Note
This is the 1934 $100,000 dollar note. It featured Woodrow Wilson.
4. What 50 Million Pennies Look Like
50 Million pennies were added to this “Memorial to the Missing”. It is suppose to represent the number of abortions since legalization in 1973. This enclosure weighs 156 tons and is worth a half million dollars. Pylons were driven into the foundation to support the bullet proof glass structure above.
5. Security Glass Advertisement
Most people have seen this picture floating around on the internet. Very simple and catchy advertisement. The money was real, but there was a security guard posted to make sure no one tried anything funny, like running over the sign with a SUV.
6. Dress Made With $100,000 Dollars
The dress was made to help promote a new gigantic lottery fund in the UK. The dress is made from Sterling Pound notes.
7. Portraits Made of Pennies
The artist behind these portraits and other artwork like this is Adrian Firth. The two pieces are called, Lizzie - pennies on mdf board 2008 and Made of Money - pennies on mdf board 2007.
8. What $1 Million Pennies Look Like
2.3 Tons of pennies sit in this glass box. It is part of a Holocaust memorial.
9. 100 Million Pennies
It’s called the “Penny Harvest Field”. $1 million dollars worth of pennies were gathered for charity. The exhibit is 30 ft by 165 ft.
10. Drug Money
Another internet favorite. $207 million is said to have been taken during a raid on a drug dealer’s house in Mexico.
11. A Wall Of Gold
This Gold is part of the New York Federal Reserve Bank. The vault sits on the bedrock of New York 80 feet below the street surface and 50 feet below the sea level. You won’t be digging to get to this one. At the time of the photo, the vault had $86 billion in gold, 269 Troy tons.
12. Largest Gold Nugget Ever Found
This is the world’s largest Gold Nugget ever found. Discovered in 1872 and is called the Holtermann Nugget. It was 630lbs in weight.
13. World’s Largest Gold Coin
The gold coin contains $2 million worth of gold and weighs in at 220 pounds. It is 20 inches across and 1 inch thick. There are 3 coins like it and they went up on auction last year.
14. Don’t Flush the Money Down the Toilet
Yes, this money seat can be yours for only $60. There are many novelty money seats for sale.
15. Another Vault of Gold
This gold vault hold gold entrust for the owners of the streetTRACKS Gold Shares EFT (AMEX:GLD), the world’s most popular gold fund.
16. Ceiling of Money
May 19th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Obviously, something is wrong between 4, 8 and 9. If 4 weighs 156 tons, contains 50 million pennies, and is worth 500,000 dollars (which is the correct value of 50 million pennies) how could you possibly have 1 million dollars worth of pennies in that tiny pillar in number 8? 2.3 tons? It would require 100 million pennies and using the figure in number 4, 312 tons would be the final weight. 2.3 tons would be closer to $7,371 dollars.
May 19th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Who cares if the math is wrong….you missed the point of the pictures
May 19th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
I take really big dumps
May 19th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
It’s not even a million pennies. Which bothered me, but besides that, it was a cool gallery
May 19th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
it says that the enclosure is worth 500k not the pennies. Read better k thnx bai
May 19th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Or did it ever occur to anyone that people can make mistakes? The fact that if you remove the dollar sign it reads simply “what 1 million pennines look like”, then contrast that to the picture of what 50 million pennies looks like and hey what do you know it’s smaller in volume. So you can do math congratulation…
May 19th, 2008 at 9:18 pm
There is no point to the pictures — that’s the point. Its only fascinating because it’s either: strange and original, or because we have an obsession with money. Everything featured here is either flaunting a person/company’s power by showing how much they can afford to waste on such frivolous nonsense, or its simply curiosity drive — like the pennies.
By the way the math should always be checked. You should remember that.
May 19th, 2008 at 9:27 pm
There is a typo in picture number 8, the “$” should not be there and it should read: What 1 Million Pennies looks like.
Its actual value if it is 1 million pennies would be $10000
May 19th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
god i wish i had 86 billion in gold
May 19th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
what do u mean, that IS the point. if someone says that something is 100 million pennies, it’s a lot different than only 7,000 dolars in pennies.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
number eight is 1 million pennies, not a million dollars in pennies.
its worth $10000.
for being so good at math, Mr. Obvious is not very smart.
May 19th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
I think the $1 million pennies is actually supposed to be 1 million pennies, with a value of $10,000.00
May 19th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
Uhh Mr. Obvious, they obviously meant one million pennies, maybe you should think of a better name
May 19th, 2008 at 11:53 pm
It says enclosure (building and pennies). The bulletproof glass is heavy as ….
May 20th, 2008 at 12:28 am
Maybe that is just the top of the pillar and the rest of it is underground.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:35 am
It appears that either the $ sign should have been added to number 4 or omitted from number 8.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Mr. Obvious, its obviously magic.
May 20th, 2008 at 3:57 am
while yalls been bitchin i been fuckin your bitches
May 20th, 2008 at 4:10 am
I wonder if times get hard, you can bust that toilet seat open to grab some items off the McDonalds dollar menu…
May 20th, 2008 at 4:58 am
To Mr. Obvious.
Obviously you failed to read “This enclosure weighs 156 tons and is worth a half million dollars.” This means that the entire enclosure is counted in the weight; meaning the heavy bullet proof glass, the heavy pillars that support the weight of the pennies and maybe even the foundation are also included in the 156 tons.
May 20th, 2008 at 5:31 am
He didn’t miss the point, he made the obvious observation that most people will think of when they read the whole article: “Wait, this makes no sense…”
The answer seems simple, though. They mean 1 million pennies, not one million $ in pennies.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:06 am
The math isn’t wrong. It says 1 million pennies. Not 1 million dollars worth of pennies. Retard.
May 20th, 2008 at 7:25 am
I think they meant 1 million pennies… not $1,000,000 IN pennies. Could just be a typo.
May 20th, 2008 at 8:13 am
The problem is a simple typo.
I don’t think it was meant to say $1 million pennies, as in 1 million dollars in pennies.
I think it just meant 1 million pennies, the $ sign being the error. There could easily be a million pennies in there.
Take number 4 as an example, ~150 tons devided by 50 is 3 tons for 1million pennies. minus the weight of the massive enclosure (that plexy or glass, could weight almost if not 1 ton per pannel.)
Long story short, it was a typo due to missunderstanding.
May 20th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
The title for Number 8 is a mistake…It contains ONE MILLION PENNIES, not one million dollars.
May 20th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Well Mr. Obvious apparently reading isn’t your strong point it says 1 million pennies not 1 million dollars worth of pennies
May 20th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Should I post another observation about how it’s really a typo and not $1,000,000 in pennies? The real idiots here are the ‘correctors” the only intelligent life form here is the first person to post that correction. The rest of you are all a bunch of coat tail jumping fuck tards.
May 21st, 2008 at 1:40 am
Umm do people not read comments before being smart asses and proving the Mr. Obviously stupid wrong.
June 4th, 2008 at 10:18 am
like dis pixs awesome
June 19th, 2008 at 1:44 am
Get off me.
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:59 am
Gawd… drop it, will ya? Try buying/renting/borrowing/begging/stealing a life… willya?
Cool pics… done.
August 26th, 2008 at 2:08 am
thats awesome, i love this blog, but not the comments
August 30th, 2008 at 8:35 am
You’re all going to hell.