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Produced by the Royal Canadian Mint, the biggest coin in the world is more than half a meter wide, weighs 100 kilogram and will be on auction in Vienna next week. How weird does one have to be in order to buy this, to want to own this?
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The general manager of the Chilean mint has been sacked for issuing coins that included incorrect spelling of the name of the country. On the coins, the country was spelled "Chiie" rather than "Chile."
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In a press announcement made yesterday, the Canadian Mint said that the independent audit failed to account for its reported missing gold, silver and other precious metals.
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The Royal Canadian Mint has called in the RCMP, saying that it cannot account for the 'missing' precious metals valued at millions of dollars.
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The unaccounted-for amount of gold, silver and other precious metals at Canada's mint was revealed to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
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The Canadian Mint announced June 3 that it has called in external auditors to investigate the seeming disappearance of "a significant quantity of gold, silver and other precious metals."
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To promote the upcoming film “Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer,” 20th Century Fox and The Franklin Mint altered 40,000 U.S. quarters to feature the character. Too bad it was illegal and the U.S. Mint is not happy.
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An unknown number of new George Washington dollar coins were mistakenly struck without their edge inscriptions, including "In God We Trust," and are fetching around $50 apiece online.
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An error at the US Mint has caused an unknown number of the new one dollar coins to go 'godless'.
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The Royal Canadian Mint's newest coin will be the size of a party pizza and worth $2 Million.
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 The Royal Canadian Mint will make Canada's last penny tomorrow during a ceremony at its Winnipeg plant.
 The Royal Canadian Mint will make Canada's last penny Friday during a ceremony at its Winnipeg plant.
 The penny's days are numbered in Canada, as the Royal Canadian Mint has made its final one-cent coin.
 The penny's days are numbered, but the Royal Canadian Mint is now looking into a second life for the one-cent denomination in the digital world through a research and developing project called "MintChip."
 The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled MintChip, a digital currency that will allow its users to use a chip to load value onto a digital device like a smartphone.
Would you use digital currency?
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