New Coin Issues

RCM Launches 2024 Opulence Collection

The Royal Canadian Mint has released its 2024 Opulence Collection, featuring three low mintage pure precious metals coins – one in gold, one silver, and one in platinum. The collection is the successor to the Mint’s 2021 Opulence coins, which featured rare pink diamonds from the Argyle diamond mine.

© Royal Canadian Mint.The 5oz gold coin also continues, and concludes, the ‘Purely Brilliant’ series launched in 2019, and features five 0.6-carat Canadian-mined Ideal Cut diamonds set in a 24 carat gold embellishment created by Canada’s Beverly Hills Jewellers on the reverse. The RCM subsequently surrounded this with an additional 0.4 carats of decorative diamonds, resulting in a total carat weight of 3.4 carats.

The obverse features an artistic interpretation of the reverse’s diamond mount, forming a repeating pattern in the background. Steven Rosati’s effigy of King Charles III is depicted in the foreground.