2018 Canadian $30 Canadian Canopy: The Maple Leaf - 2 oz Fine Silver Coin

2018 Canadian $30 Canadian Canopy: The Maple Leaf - 2 oz Fine Silver Coin

Face Value: $30
Mintage: 3,500
Composition: 99.99% Silver
Weight (g): 62.69
Diameter (mm): 50
Finish: Proof

Standing tall in our eastern forests, the sugar maple is as hardy as the people it represents. Canada’s arboreal emblem is magnificent in the summer, when branches that have weathered wild winds and cold winters reach ever higher into the sky. Its broad leaves form a dense canopy that filters the sun’s warm rays on your coin’s design, allowing light to spill down through the gaps and create an inspiring view from the ground.

Step into a maple grove where you look “up” in awe overhead! Order your coin today!

Special features:
AN IMMERSIVE VIEWING EXPERIENCE! Your coin pulls you into the summer scene by creating the impression of standing beneath the towering maple trees and looking up at the vaulted canopy of leaves overhead!
INSPIRED BY A NATURAL PHENOMENON! A thin gap in the coloured foliage allows the proof silver finish to mimic the effect of filtered sunlight, which forms a maple leaf among the leaves!
OUR BIGGEST CANOPY YET! Your coin’s 50 mm diameter makes it the largest of all our canopy-themed coins to date!
A STUNNING MIX OF ENGRAVING AND COLOUR! While finely detailed engraving adds life-like texture to the tree trunks and branches, the coin’s polished surface stands in for sunlight shining down between the coloured foliage.
INCLUDES SERIALIZED CERTIFICATE! The Royal Canadian Mint certifies all of its collector coins. Most of these are serialized certifications, meaning that each certificate is given a unique number, starting at 1.
LOW MINTAGE! Limited to 3,500 coins worldwide.
2 OZ. OF PURE SILVER! Your coin is crafted from two ounces of 99.99% pure silver and is GST/HST exempt.

Design:
Designed by artist Emily Damstra, your coin showcases the picturesque beauty of the sugar maple tree (Acer saccharum) on a bright summer day. The unique perspective creates the impression of standing at the base of an iconic Canadian tree, and looking up at the engraved trunks and branches that reach ever higher into the cloudless sky. Inspired by the natural phenomenon of crown shyness, the coloured maple canopy is marked by thin borders of light that form a distinctive shape among the leaves, where the shine of a proof finish stands in for sunlight. The reverse includes the engraved word “CANADA”. The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.

Packaging:
Your coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint-branded maroon clamshell with a black beauty box.