While its real currency doesn’t have much heft, Venezuela can at least boast of having the world’s heaviest coin — though it’s made of chocolate.
More than 80 chocolatiers got together to create a replica of a one-bolivar coin from 1,000 kilos (2,200 pounds) of chocolate at an exposition promoting Venezuela’s cacao industry. Organizers said Friday it won Guinness Book of Records certification as the biggest chocolate coin ever, surpassing the previous mark of 658 kilos (1,450 pounds) set in Italy in 2012.
The Venezuelan coin is 2.4 meters (nearly 8 feet) across and 20 centimeters (almost 8 inches) thick.
With triple-digit inflation wracking Venezuela’s economy, a real bolivar coin won’t even buy a stick of gum. It’s worth a twelfth of a U.S. penny on the black market.
