The eleven years' work had cost $55,000, and the first gold found was a grain the size of a pin's head.

It is kept under locks and bars, as a precious thing, and is reverently shown to the visitor, "hats off." When I saw it I had not heard its history.
"It is gold.

Examine it--take the glass.

Now how much should you say it is worth ?" I said: "I should say about two cents; or in your English dialect, four farthings." "Well, it cost L11,000." "Oh, come!" "Yes, it did.

Ballarat and Bendigo have produced the three monumental nuggets of the world, and this one is the monumentalest one of the three.
The other two represent 19,000 a piece; this one a couple of thousand more.