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2013 Moon Landing Gold Coin

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Does anybody know anything about this coin? Its a moon landing coin, from 2013 and its part of the "Most Affordable Gold Coin Collection (2013)" according to the brochure that came in the mail today. You can find more info about the set here:
http://www.mint.ca/store/coin/coin-....UoPZV_vX-Jh

I assume the coin will be around 11mm in diameter and weight 0.5g

I've already tried to Google the information about it, but I wasn't able to find anything useful. I'd like to purchase it on its own, but I have no idea what mint it is from.

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 Posted 11/13/2013  8:47 pm  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Circus to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Best bet would be to contact the Canadian mint since they are the mint selling the set. And their page says not sold in stores. It appears to be a subscription sale set!
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It's nothing really special, a pseudo-NCLT (pretty sure the Royal Canadian Mint can't mint legal tender Samoan dollars), and you can find gold far cheaper... a troy ounce is just over 31 grams, so at today's (13Nov2013) price, that's CDN$21.53 (US$20.60) of gold being sold for CDN$89.95. Nice markup if you can get it.
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 Posted 11/14/2013  01:42 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add Sap to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply

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pretty sure the Royal Canadian Mint can't mint legal tender Samoan dollars

Why not? All a mint needs to do, when their marketing department dreams up some crazy scheme to detach coin collectors from more of their money, is to find some government somewhere who is prepared to pass laws giving their products legal tender status. On rare occasions, such ideas might even originate from the issuing country, which contracts out the coin production to the lowest bidder. The RCM is pretty good at winning lowest-bidder contracts.

But just because the RCM is selling the set, does not mean the RCM made the set. The RCM website is looking more and more like a coin dealer website these days, on-selling coins actually minted elsewhere. I don't believe these particular coins are RCM-made. On the sale page for the Collection, buried down in the blurb:

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ABOUT YOUR COLLECTION:
This collection offers some of the highest quality gold coins of the world and all are official legal tender of coin-issuing nations. The Royal Canadian Mint sources these coins internationally - coin availability may vary at times and substitutions may be made within a collection.
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Good catch. I would say I missed the fine print, but really I didn't care enough to bother once I figured out the markup.
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 Posted 11/14/2013  02:04 am  Show Profile   Bookmark this reply Add jpaiva83 to your friends list Get a Link to this Reply
Thanks for the help guys but if its all the same to you, I'd rather stay on topic. I'm not so interested in hearing about the pluses & minus of what the RCM does and does not do. I just want to know who makes this coin. My girlfriend is into space & NASA stuff so I thought it would make a nice gift.
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So I take it nobody has any info for me? :(
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The only place I can find by Googling that makes mention of this coin is this thread on CCF. They don't seem to have made it onto the secondary market and have not yet made it into the coin catalogues. Given that the above artwork is from an artists impression and not an actual coin and given the "coins may be substituted" clause, it's even entirely possible that that particular coin was cancelled and never actually struck.

Have you tried contacting someone at the RCM and asking them which mint made those particular coins?
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