Your Ridiculously Small €20 Book Of Kells Coin Has Arrived

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Just 11 mm in diameter, weighing 0.5 grams and among 12,000 of the little blighters released today, the €20 Gold Proof coin is one of the smallest in the world and its design –  a monk working on The Book of Kells – is by artist Thomas Ryan.

It also costs €45.

Cough.

2012 €20 Gold Proof Coin – Irish Monastic Art (Central Bank)

(Pics: Jason Clarke)

 

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