gold fever...

...and a nugget is a nugget is a nugget regardless of size.

However jubilation must have been HUGE when the world's largest alluvial nugget the Welcome Stranger  was scratched out from the dirt around a tree root (as you do) in the Victorian goldfields by a Cornish miner in 1869.
Records of the weight seem to vary as the nugget was chopped into bits for transportation but between 78-97kgs it was a whopper!

S and I had a trip to The Mint, Western Australia's official bullion mint and still housed in the building of 1899.
We watched a gold pour,  weighed ourselves in the at today's gold price    ( I'm $3,646,580.00) and gasped at the monster coin weighing a colossal 1 tonne (extra).
Mmmm try schlepping that around in a coin purse.