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Aaron Lynett / National Post

The Royal Canadian Mint’s $1-million bullion bullion silver weighs 11 kilograms and is indeed valued during some-more than $5-million.

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Tristin Hopper 
Nov 4, 2011 – 6:00 AM ET
| Last Updated: Nov 4, 2011 8:54 AM ET

On Thursday, to applaud a opening of a Richmond Hill showroom, changed steel distributor Canadian PMX Corp. hold a open observation of a Royal Canadian Mint’s 100 kilogram coin, acclaimed by a Guinness Book of World Records as a world’s largest bullion coin. It was a coin’s initial outing to Toronto. Tristin Hopper compiles a stats.

3,215: Ounces of bullion in a coin. In 2008, it would have taken 105 Klondike bullion mines operative for 9 days to furnish that most gold.

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100: Amount in grams of non-gold in a coin. The 100 kg silver is 99.999% pure, though that still means there is some arsenic, zinc and iron hidden in there.

8: Number of years Queen Elizabeth II has aged given a mural adorning a silver was etched. The Queen is now 85, though a 100 kg silver depicts her during a lissome 77.

$6.3-million: Actual value of a coin, as per a stream cost of roughly $1,773 per ounce. With 118 of these things, Toronto City Council could finally tighten a $750-million bill opening (79 coins if a opening is usually $500-million).

96,000: Amount in tonnes of ore that indispensable to be dug adult and processed to make a silver — about a same as a weight of a CN Tower. (Conventional knowledge is it takes about 27 tonnes of ore to furnish an unit of gold.)

10: Maximum jail judgment in years for hidden a coin. That is, if we do not get dinged with charges for violation and entering or armed spoliation — or a polite suit.

[unknown]: Hubris indispensable to make a 100 kg golf coin. While a rest of a universe suffers by mountainous stagnation and debt crises, Canada’s possess packet is furloughed a hunk of bullion so large it needs to be hauled around with a forklift. “Why did a Royal Canadian Mint make a world’s purest and largest bullion bullion coin? Because we can,” wrote a Mint in central promotional materials for a coin.

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Tags: By a numbers, Canadian PMX Corp., CN Tower, Guiness Book of World Records, Klondike, Queen Elizabeth II, royal canadian mint, Toronto City Council

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