I have seen the one tonne gold coin in at the
Perth Mint, where it is on public display.
You can walk right up to it and touch it.
It is about 1 metre in diameter, and about 4 or 5 inches thick.
It is cast, not struck.
It IS available for sale if you have enough idle fiat money lying about to purchase it!
It would have to be the World's most expensive numismatic item.
On current spot gold price, you will need about $51.4 million to buy it.
I have figured that the Tongan 1/4, 1/2 and One Hau of 1967 were the first palladium coins. That is what my copy of Krause reports.
If in fact that the 1966 Sierra Leone coins were the first, it seems to me that this issue must have been NCLT (as with the Tongan coins), but released in a range of metals which included palladium.
I remember seeing a set of the Tongan coins not long after release. They looked like cupronickel coins, however they were denominated in Hau.