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05-05-2007, 10:24 AM
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| fucc that and fucc you scarymoose is Offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: new york
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    | canada thinks they are rich OTTAWA (Reuters) - The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled a welcome addition to any piggy bank on Thursday -- a monster gold coin with a face value of C$1 million (455,000 pounds) that it says is the world's biggest, purest and highest denomination coin. ADVERTISEMENT click here Weighing in at 100 kilograms (220.5 pounds), the limited edition coin easily dwarfs its closest rival, the 31 kg (68 pound) "Big Phil", which was made to honour the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and has a face value of a mere 100,000 euros (C$150,000). The Canadian mint introduced the mega-coin, which is the size of an extra-large pizza, alongside the one-ounce gold bullion coins it is mass producing at its Ottawa plant. Originally designed to promote the new one-ounce coins, the colossal 100 kg coins will be produced in a very limited quantity. A U.S. precious metals distributor has ordered three and there is interest in Asia and Europe, the mint said. At 53 centimetres (21 inches) in diameter and over 3 cm (1.2 inches) thick, the massive coins need a high level of hand crafting. While it has a C$1 million face value, the coin is worth more than twice that amount given the current gold price of $683.30 an ounce. The new coins are both adorned with a maple leaf and boast 99.999 percent purity, a notch above previous purity peaks of 99.99 percent. "Since the Royal Canadian Mint upped the ante on the rest of the world in 1982, by raising the purity of gold bullion to four nines pure (99.99 percent) other nations have come on the scene ... Austria, the United States, and Australia being the case in point," said mint spokesman Alex Reeves. "We compete for market share with all of these countries and we decided that the time was right to do something to stand out from the crowd once again." Bullion and refinery services generated almost C$281 million in revenue in 2006, more than half the mint's total sales of almost C$494 million. | ||||
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05-05-2007, 11:41 AM
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| Mean Old Bastard  ßü††|맧 is Offline Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Willamette Valley
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05-05-2007, 01:37 PM
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| Brofessor  TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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  | Re: canada thinks they are rich What the hell do Canadians claim? Any great inventions? Any great social, philosophical, or technological advances? Any great battles won? Fuck, not that I know of. Now, next time someone brings up Canada in a conversation, I can say "oh that country with all the moose and the giant gold coin?" Canada - the country with the giant fucking coin. ^^ needs to be made into a motivational poster stat! Hooray for Canadia. | ||||
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05-05-2007, 06:38 PM
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| Hence, my self-loathing  AnnonUSA is Offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA
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| Re: canada thinks they are rich What's in your Wallet? | ||||
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05-05-2007, 09:10 PM
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| fucc that and fucc you scarymoose is Offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: new york
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05-08-2007, 11:29 PM
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| TOKEUP DEFECTOR  BigRon is Offline Join Date: Dec 2005
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  | Re: canada thinks they are rich Originally Posted by el-crunko
Yeah what he said.
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05-09-2007, 08:07 AM
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| Whoa, It's Todd...  The_Egg is Offline Join Date: Mar 2007
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 | Re: canada thinks they are rich Originally Posted by el-crunko
They gave us...
and The Battle of the Atlantic they had a role in They built Hurricane fighters and trained pilots to defend Britain before the U.S. entered the war. 15,000 Canadian troops at Normandy and many more. I don't really have a problem with Canada other than they make us look bad by doing nothing. | |||||||
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05-09-2007, 10:47 AM
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| Brofessor TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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| Re: canada thinks they are rich They also gave us Rush... I certainly don't have anything against Canada either. Beautiful country. But, I was just being sarcastic... | ||||
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05-09-2007, 11:14 AM
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| fucc that and fucc you scarymoose is Offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: new york
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| Re: canada thinks they are rich  canada also gave us this | ||||
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05-09-2007, 11:28 AM
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| Brofessor TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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| Re: canada thinks they are rich Who the fuck is that, and why should I care? | ||||
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05-09-2007, 11:34 AM
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| fucc that and fucc you scarymoose is Offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: new york
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| Re: canada thinks they are rich its that bitch avril lavine she is a hardcore mtv punx rox0r | ||||
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05-09-2007, 11:48 AM
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| Brofessor TheBagman is Offline Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: In the desert on a horse with no name.
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| Re: canada thinks they are rich Not interested. | ||||
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05-09-2007, 01:16 PM
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| Hence, my self-loathing AnnonUSA is Offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA
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| Re: canada thinks they are rich Originally Posted by el-crunko
Fag! | ||||
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05-09-2007, 01:16 PM
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| Hence, my self-loathing AnnonUSA is Offline Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: USA
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