The Canadian Palladium Maple Leaf is the official

bullion Bullion is non-ferrous metal that has been refined to a high standard of elemental purity. The term is ordinarily applied to bulk metal used in the production of coins and especially to precious metals such as gold and silver. It comes from ...

palladium Palladium is a chemical element; it has symbol Pd and atomic number 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1802 by the English chemist William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas (formally 2 Pallas), ...

coin of

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. It is issued by the

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in .9995 purity. The coins have

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status in Canada, but as is often the case with bullion coins, the

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s of these coins is lower than the market price of the material they are made from. Unlike the gold, silver and platinum maple leaf series, the palladium maple leaf is subject to the GST/HST tax. The newest member of the Maple Leaf family of pure bullion coins, the palladium Maple Leaf, was first minted in November 2005.The Royal Canadian Mint produced the first government issued palladium bullion coin from 2005 to 2007, and then for a further one-off year in 2009. They were reintroduced in 2015 and have been produced every year since.

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