THE Royal Mint has produced a giant 10-kilo coin - its biggest in 1,135 years.

The 8in wide "masterwork" took 400 hours to perfect, including four days of polishing.

The amazing coin has already been sold, though no details were given.

However, the Mint said something of this craftsmanship would be worth six figures.

The team of master craftspeople who created the item used traditional skills alongside today's tech advances.

Engraving machines carefully cut the design on to the coin, which has a denomination of £10,000.

A master toolmaker then hand-worked the coin, removing any blemishes before polishing and laser-frosting to texture the surface.

The coin marks the conclusion of the Mint's Queen's Beasts commemorative collection.

The series takes its inspiration from ten stone statues that lined her route to Westminster Abbey at her 1953 coronation.

This coin reunites all the beasts in one design: the Lion of England, the greyhound, the yale, the dragon, the horse, the lion of Mortimer, the unicorn, the griffin, the bull, and the falcon.

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