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Already, three buyers have shelled out for one of the 1 million Canadian dollar coins introduced recently. The Royal Canadian mint made the coins, which are 20 inches in diameter and 1 inch thick, basically just to seize the bragging rights from Austria, which had the record with a 70-pound, 15-inch wide coin. "They're not doing this because there is huge demand for 100-kilo gold coins," Bret Evans, editor of Canadian Coin News said. "They're doing it because it gives them some bragging rights in having the largest purest gold coin in the world. They'll kick the Austrians out of the Guinness World Book of Records," he said. Listed as 99.999 percent pure gold bullion, the coin features Queen Elizabeth II on one side and Canada's national symbol, the maple leaf, on the other.
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