Euro 2012’s Big Money

December 27th, 2011 | by: chris | Comments Off

Literally.

Just the day you were waiting for, right? Ukraine’s Euro 2012 coin collection: released. Specifically the coin above, for which you’ve been stocking away all those gift cards and envelopes full of cash.

It’s a €46 coin selling at a price of €34,000. For, yes, a football tournament. Outside of the rapture, I can’t imagine there to be any event worth selling currency at roughly 740x its actual value – and even then I imagine it’d be frowned upon. (You know, given the whole ‘charity’ thing.)

Tis a nice looking piece of change, really, along with the rest of the collection. Still won’t get you anything but blank stares at Starbucks.