I would have been more amused if they had "mined" the gold from old tailings piles (the ones around Kirkland Lake used to have enough gold still in them to make that feasible, although I don't know whether that's the case anymore), or at least some mine with an associated settlement, rather than one located way out in the wilderness.

Single-sourced, mine-to-table artisanal coins. How hipster!

I don't understand the point of making a coin that has ~$3500 worth of gold in it, and then giving it an official face value of $50.

They had to ruin it by putting that dude's face on it.