Finally! A 100-kg Canadian gold coin
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The Royal Canadian mint made the coins--20 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick--mostly to seize the bragging rights from Austria, which had the record with a 70-pound, 15-inch wide coin.
"They're not doing this because there is huge demand for 100-kilo gold coins," Bret Evans, editor of Canadian Coin News said Saturday. "They're doing it because it gives them some bragging rights in having the largest purest gold coin in the world."
"They'll kick the Austrians out of the Guinness World Book of Records," he said.
Listed as 99.999 percent pure gold bullion, the coin features Queen Elizabeth II on one side and Canada's national symbol -- the maple leaf -- on the other.
It takes about six weeks to make and has a face value of 1 million Canadian dollars ($903,628), though it sells for approximately $2.7 million depending on the market value of gold.
The coins will give the mint a higher international profile.
"We wanted to raise the bar so that we could say the government of Canada, or the Royal Canadian Mint, produced the purest gold coins in the world," said David Madge, the mint's director of bullion and refinery services.
Austria's 100,000 Euro coin ($138,155) was 70 pounds and 15 inches in diameters.
Evans said the Canadian mint recently lost some market share as mints in Australia, Austria, China and the United States pushed their own high-quality gold coins.
What does one do with a 220-pound gold coin?
Evans said bullion dealers use it as a promotional tool. A Japanese dealer, he said, puts one of the Austrian coins in public venues to draw people's attention.
"And while they're looking at that, they are being exposed to the idea of buying one ounce or half-ounce gold coins," he said.
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From CBC news
he Royal Canadian Mint has produced the world's first 100-kilogram gold coin with a face value of $1 million. And they're for sale.
Why did it do this? "Because we can," the mint said on its website.
The coin is the size of a "very thick pizza" — 50 centimetres wide and three centimetres thick — and is .99999 pure.
It was originally meant to be a one-off novelty item to help promote the other gold coin the mint unveiled Thursday — a new line of one-ounce Maple Leaf bullion coins that will have a face value of $200.
But after several interested buyers came forward, the mint decided to produce "a very limited quantity" of the $1-million coins on a made-to-order basis for public sale.
Even though the big coin has a face value of $1 million, it won't sell for that. At current prices, the coin's 3,215 troy ounces of gold are worth well over $2 million.
A mint spokesperson said the coins will sell for between $2.5 million and $3 million. So far, the mint has received confirmed orders for five coins.
The Royal Canadian Mint faces international competition from a variety of other countries that also make gold coins.
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