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OTTAWA — Having dumped the lowly penny, the Royal Canadian Mint is planning to create two high-value coins that won’t appear in any change handed out at the local Tim Hortons.

A recent cabinet order authorizes the mint to produce two coins with face values of $1,000 and $1,250, destined for collectors rather than pockets or purses.

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They’ll join a series of high-denomination items struck by the mint in recent years, including a monster $1-million gold coin issued in 2007 featuring 100 kilograms of pure gold.

Just five of the pizza-sized, world-record bullion coins were sold.

The mint also issued a $100,000 numismatic coin in 2011, with 10 kilograms of pure gold, its second-biggest coin ever.

Only seven of those were sold, and the item — featuring an image of Bill Reid’s sculpture “Spirit of Haida Gwaii” — is no longer available.

The two new coins will be in the mid-range of the mint’s collector coins, smaller in denomination than its $2,500 coins containing a kilogram of gold, but larger than the popular series measured in ounces of gold or silver.