{"id":28,"date":"2007-08-10T13:22:54","date_gmt":"2007-08-10T20:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2008-01-31T01:19:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T08:19:52","slug":"million-dollar-coin-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?p=28","title":{"rendered":"Million Dollar Coin &#8211; Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/?attachment_id=27\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-27\" title=\"1million\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/tt_ian_canadian_coin_300.jpg\" alt=\"1million\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"6\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The most valuable coin ever offered in an online-only auction will be available in the Teletrade\u00c2\u00ae Premier Plus auction #2409 on August 16, 2007. It will be the first auction of the world&#8217;s largest gold coin, a 100 kilogram $1 million (Canadian) denomination coin recently produced by the Royal Canadian Mint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is an exciting, two-fold event for us and the entire numismatic community,&#8221; said Ian Russell, President of Teletrade of Irvine, California, a division of Spectrum Numismatics International.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the first 100 kilo coin that is available for sale to the public. It contains more than $2 million of gold bullion. It will be the most valuable coin ever offered in an online-only auction. And we&#8217;re launching TeletradeDirect\u00c2\u00ae, a new service for collectors and investors who want to purchase gold, silver or platinum bullion coins.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>An example of the 100 kilo gold coin will be exhibited by the Royal Canadian Mint during the American Numismatic Association&#8217;s World&#8217;s Fair of Money\u00c2\u00ae convention in Milwaukee, August 8 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 12. The huge coin is over 20 inches in diameter, an inch thick and weighs a little over 220 pounds (3,215 troy ounces) of .99999 fine gold.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.teletrade.com\/coins\/lot.asp?auction=2409&amp;lot=1258\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view this special lot<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The most valuable coin ever offered in an online-only auction will be available in the Teletrade\u00c2\u00ae Premier Plus auction #2409 on August 16, 2007. It will be the first auction of the world&#8217;s largest gold coin, a 100 kilogram $1 million (Canadian) denomination coin recently produced by the Royal Canadian Mint. &#8220;This is an exciting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[5,12,3],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-canada","tag-gold","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.capitaltreasures.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}