Maple Leaf 1 oz or Maple Leaf 1/2 oz: which is the better buy today?
Maple Leaf 1 oz holds 31.10 g of fine gold and Maple Leaf 1/2 oz 15.55 g — close enough to be the same purchase in metal, and far enough apart in everything else not to be the same coin to own.
| coin | Maple Leaf 1 oz | Maple Leaf 1/2 oz |
|---|---|---|
| fine gold | 31.10 g | 15.55 g |
| gross weight | 31.10 g | 15.55 g |
| purity | 999.9 ‰ · 24 kt | 999.9 ‰ · 24 kt |
| diameter | 30 mm | 25 mm |
| thickness | 2.87 mm | 2.23 mm |
| face value | 50 dollars | 20 dollars |
| struck | Canada · since 1979 | Canada · since 1986 |
The prices come from the feed, and the feed has not answered yet.
Maple Leaf 1 oz — Pure gold, no alloy: the softest of the one-ounce coins and the one that shows a fingerprint, so it travels in its capsule.
Maple Leaf 1/2 oz — Half an ounce of pure gold, 25 mm across, and as soft as the full coin: it travels in its capsule for the same reason.
Both are struck in 999.9 ‰ · 24 kt: the same alloy, the same feel in the hand, and any difference on the scale is a difference in gold.
Both are modern bullion coins, struck for investors — Maple Leaf 1 oz since 1979, Maple Leaf 1/2 oz since 1986 — and priced on their metal and the margins above it.
So the comparison is the premium. Whichever of the two a dealer asks less for above its metal is the cheaper gold that day — and that changes shop by shop and day by day, which is what the numbers above are for.