Watch List notes:

CANADA: AV medal, 2001, KM-X1, Lasqueti Island gold bullion issue, 1/10 troy ounce of .9999 gold, mintage of only 38 pieces! ANACS graded MS69 DCAM, RR. Lasqueti Island is an island on the east coast of Vancouver Island in the Gulf of Georgia, British Columbia, Canada. It has a population of 367 and land area of 73 square kilometers. Tolling Jennings, a numismatist, and Ray Lipovsky, a goldsmith, began minting their own coins on July 5, 1997 at the local Lasqueti mint. They are continuing to mint silver and gold coins "with the expectation that the continued collapse of the mega-nation state will lead to the creation of states based on bio-regionalism." They predict that present political systems will eventually self-destruct and that their "paper economies" will crumble.

Estimate: 350-450 USD