hehehe try putting that in your purse!!!!

lol, right? ;) Daaaang!

The Swedes had similar "coins". Never knew it was used in Alaska, though.

The Chinese did something similar, except instead of one huge piece of copper, they had tiny copper coins that were nearly worthless, around a penny or two in today's money, and that was the main coin, so you'd have to carry around literally thousands of them to buy even a small item. They made them with holes in the middle so you could string them together and pay with strings of 100 or 1,000 coins.

The Canadians have actually made a larger coin than that, in terms of value and mass, but not for general use. They issued a bullion coin with a mass of 100 kilograms of nearly pure (99.999% pure) gold, with a face value of C$1,000,000, though the actual value of the gold was more than twice face value.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKN0328796820070503

Oh WOW!! That I did not know. That's fascinating!!!

Imagine the size of the vending machines you'd use those coins in...

LOL. It better be a damn big soda.

*blink* Indeed I have not. That's odd!