Hey everybody!      Hope your all having a great day and that all our YN's are having fun at the live auction!  I'd like to share with you one of the first coins I bought for my collection way back in 2007.  This was a huge leap as I was a newbie collector and we're talking  gold..    But I dived in and bought my first gold coin!  This is from the Royal Canadian Mint.  A 2007  1oz. Canadian Gold Maple Leaf $200 Dollar Coin.  It's also encased in a Assay holder which is kinda cool.  This coin weighs 31.15 grams of .99999 of pure gold and has a diameter of 30 mm.  The obverse shows Queen Elizabeth ll along with "200 Dollars" and "2007".  The reverse is a multi-maple leaf design as well as the inscriptions "CANADA" along with weight, purity and metal.  It also had a low mintage of 30,848.    Its kinda rainy out here in the desert today.   So I decided to look through my coin vault...  Rainy day activities...Right...   haha    Which leads up to this coin.  I hadn't looked at it for a long time and thought this is the perfect coin for a blog today!   A bright ray of golden sunshine on a cloudy day...  I hope you enjoy it too.    Comments are always welcomed.