With winter holidays just around the corner, Christmas tree competition is heating up and Germany is taking the lead as it unveils its own solid-gold version worth $2.6 million. Dubbed by its creators as “the most expensive” Christmas tree in Europe, the festive gold creation is made up of 2,018 solid gold one-ounce Vienna Philharmonic coins, topped by a massive 20-ounce coin, which is placed into a golden star. It took more than one hour to assemble the tree as all the gold coins had to be placed on an acrylic Christmas tree shape. Once completed, the tree weighed around 63 kilograms in pure gold. Munich-based gold ... (full story)