"1.4 tonnes of old coins"

[rjohara]

I don't know if they are all ancient, but I do know this guy's coin collection is a lot bigger than mine.

[virtvsprobi]

You must be talking about Lam Dzu Xenh. While 1.4 tonnes is fairly easy to do with Chinese cash it'd be quite the "achievement" with Milesian fractions!
That'd likely be owning all of them! Ha, ha!

I've heard of another guy, a Chinese businessman, that also gave the size of his collection at something like a ton. That is fairly absurd, if you ask me.
But these early Chinese spade and fish coins are pretty hefty!  

Missong's monumental collection of Probus coins (~14000 pieces) weighs in at something around 60 kg

G/<

[Roma_Orbis]

Missong's monumental collection of Probus coins (~14000 pieces) weighs in at something around 60 kg

Imagine that: some 12-15 years ago, some metal-detectorists in France found 200 kg of Sestertii from Postumus , the kind of hoard that goes (and actually went) unrecorded (with no chance to study it), for obvious greedy reasons 
Their car was so loaded on the return that the rear was close to the ground.

Well, I would anyway exchange 200 kg of Sestertii against 2 or 3 Aurei of Postumus

Jérôme

[Robert_Brenchley]

I wouldn't! Think how much more you could learn with 200Kg of coins to study. The problem would be finding the time to do it. That's what, maybe 30 000 coins?

[Roma_Orbis]

Well, for study, this is a great occasion (around 200/0.025=8000 coins). For a collection, I'll choose the Aurei: less encumbering! And I love the Postumus gold

Jérôme