Ever wanted to spend a cool million at one spot with a single coin?  Well, me neither.  But if you have had this desire, and carrying around boxes and boxes of quarters is just getting to be too much, APMEX has an answer for you.  APMEX, of course, is American Precious Metals Exchange – one of the largest metals dealers in the United States.  They currently have up for sale a very unique item – a Royal Canadian Mint Gold Maple with a face value of $1 million Canadian dollars.  That makes it the highest face value coin ever minted – a record that it will likely hold for a very long time. 

This impressive coin contains .99999 fine gold ( 5 nines – incredibly pure stuff ) – 100 kilograms of it.  That’s 220 pounds of  pure gold.  The selling price is 5% over spot, which is very reasonable in this day of higher gold premiums.  At today’s gold price, the purchase price of this coin would be – you might want to sit down for this – $3,173,205.  That’s over three million clams.  American clams, at that – worth more than Canadian the last time I checked.