2025 Canada $20 Nature’s Delight: Honey Bee - 1 oz Fine Silver Coin

2025 Canada $20  Nature’s Delight: Honey Bee - 1 oz Fine Silver Coin

Discover the buzz! Explore the beauty and significance of this hexagon-shaped coin.

Flying from flower to flower, the honey bee collects pollen, floral oils, and the nectar that is turned into honey at the hive; as it moves about, it provides an essential pollination service that helps plants grow and reproduce, ultimately contributing to one-third of the foods we eat.

Known to be efficient both in instinct and design, the honeybee and its comb are beautifully adorned with yellow gold plating on this 99.99% pure silver coin, which, fittingly, features the popular hexagon coin shape that mimics the natural design of a honeycomb cell, widely considered to be nature’s perfect structure.

A honeycomb-shaped showcase.

Features

• Selective gold plating. On your coin’s reverse, the honey bee and the honeycomb background are plated with yellow gold, its amber honey hue contrasting beautifully with the silvery flower petals.
• A winged wonder. Honey bees are among the world’s top pollinators, and they are a crucial part of the biodiversity on which we all depend for our survival.
• Pure silver. Your coin is crafted in 1 oz. of 99.99% pure silver.
• Limited mintage. Just 7,500 coins are available to collectors worldwide.
• Includes serialized certificate. The Royal Canadian Mint certifies all of its collector coins.
• No GST/HST.

Design

Inspired by daisies and black-eyed Susans, the centre of a stylized flower serves as a landing pad for a busy honey bee (Apis mellifera) in this reverse design by Canadian artist June Steube. The bee’s central position reflects its importance as a pollinator, while the overhead view allows for a more stylized representation of its wing pattern. The honeycomb in the background is visible between the flower petals, its hexagonal cells mirroring the coin’s six-sided shape. Both the bee and the honeycomb, as well as the rim on both sides, are plated with yellow gold. The obverse features the gold-plated effigy of His Majesty King Charles III by Canadian artist Steven Rosati.
A Mountie in the Red Serge uniform atop a black Hanoverian horse is one of the most iconic images of Canada. On your coin’s reverse, that image is brought to life by a selective application of colour, which highlights the Officer in Charge as they lead the Salute.

Beautiful design
Venerated for its industrious nature, the honey bee takes centre stage on this hexagonal coin’s reverse, where the layered design artfully connects the pollinator with its pollen source and its honeycomb.

Hexagon coin
The six-sided coin shape from our Snowflake series generated a lot of buzz; here, the hexagonal outline resembles the shape of a honeycomb cell, where nectar and pollen are stored inside the beehive.

Packaging

Your coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint-branded black paperboard case.

Specifications

Face Value: $20
Mintage: 7,500
Composition: 99.99% pure silver with yellow gold platingWeight (g): 31.39
Diameter (mm): 42
Finish: Reverse Proof