Sometimes, money does grow on trees.
A German gold merchant appears to have produced one of the most expensive Christmas trees ever, crafting a specimen out of $5.5 million worth of bullion — proving a green thumb’s got nothing on the Midas Touch.
“The gold Christmas tree illustrates this timeless meaning of precious metal in an impressive way,” Benjamin Summa, a spokesman for Pro Aurum, creator of the earning bush, told NewsX.
The approximately ten-foot-tall Tannenbaum, which was displayed at the bullion hawker’s headquarters in Munich for several days, was concocted in honor of the company’s 35th anniversary.
Created in collaboration with the Austrian State Mint, the high-karat capitalized conifer is comprised of 2,024 gold Vienna Philharmonic commemorative pieces — one of the world’s top-selling collector coins — like something that would languish inside Goldfinger’s lair on Christmas Day.
In lieu of the traditional star, the wildly dear decoration is adorned with a jumbo-sized 24-karat coin — redefining the term “bank branches.”
Christmas trees seem to be entering their gilded age — alongside a Fort Knox’s worth of gold-plated items from cranberry sauce to toilets.
Gold-obsessed billionaires better not reach for their wallets just yet, however. Pro Aurum has stressed that this pyramidal gold-mine is not for sale.
Pro Aurum reps claimed that the tree is simply meant to symbolize how the value of gold is evergreen.
Interestingly the ostentatious ornament holder is not the most expensive tree ever.
That honor goes to an $11 million dollar specimen that was displayed at the Emirates Palace hotel in Abu Dhabi in 2010.
The opulent fir was adorned with 181 pieces of jewelry and stood 43.2 feet tall, according to the Guinness Book Of World Records.
