Canadian $350 Gold Coin

Canadian $350 2007 Reverse



Canadian $350 2007 Obverse

Canadian $350 Gold Coin was first produced by the Royal Canadian Mint in 1998. This coin is considered the world's purest gold coin, containing 99.999 % of fine gold. The $350 coin weighs 38.0500 grams and holds 1.2233 troy ounces of fine gold.

The full specification for the Canadian $350 gold coin is as follows:

Previously, the purest of gold coins considered having 99.99 % of fine gold. This changed in 1998, when Canada introduced its newest gold coin, Canadian $350 gold coin, which was struck in extremely pure gold with never seen before composition of 99.999% of pure gold.

The obverse of the Canadian $350 gold coin as many other Canadian coins features a ruling monarch of the time (which is Elizabeth the Second in this case), denomination of the coin, and its year of issue. The reverse of the $350 coin is different every year though and shows different scenes celebrating important events of Canadian life and Canadians that left a mark in Canadian history. For example in 1998, the reverse of the coin shows four flowers, representing four different Founding Nations of Canada: the French, the English, the Scottish, and the Irish. In the following 1999 year, the coin shows another flower the Lady's Slipper orchid, which is a symbol of the Prince Edward Island. The recent Canadian $350 gold coin minted in 2008 shows yet another picture of a flower, Saxifrage this time, which is the symbol of Nunavut (the largest and newest federal territory of Canada)

Nearly all of the $350 gold coins show some kind of a flower, representing different regions and provinces of Canada. The mintage of the coins was sometimes aligned to the year of the issue. For example in 1998, the mintage was 1,998 coins and in 2006 it was 2,006. But the Canadian Royal Mint did not follow this interesting tradition all the way through, having issued only 1,400 gold coins for 2007 and 2008.

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