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The Big Maple Leaf (BML) is a $1 million (
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weighing (3,215
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s). A set of six of these coins was produced by the
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(RCM) in 2007, at their Ottawa facility where the first BML produced remains in storage. , the market value of a single Big Maple Leaf had reached approximately $4 million (
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). On 27 March 2017, one of the coins was stolen from a Berlin museum. The Big Maple Leaf remained the largest gold coin ever minted until 2011, when the 1 tonne
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("Gold Kangaroo") was minted.


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A Big Maple Leaf measures thick and in diameter and is 999.99/1000 pure. The obverse of the BML shows Queen Elizabeth II as she has appeared on Canadian coinage , when Susanna Blunt's design became the third iteration of the queen's effigy to appear on coinage, (the others were 1965, and 1990). Blunt's design was intended to show the queen 'in maturing dignity', without a tiara or crown, (only one other RCM design ever had the monarch not wearing a crown). The reverse design is the stylized maple leaf by RCM artist and senior engraver: