2023 Canadian $50 Canadian Collage: Four Seasons - 3 oz Fine Silver Coloured Coin

2023 Canadian $50 Canadian Collage: Four Seasons - 3 oz Fine Silver Coloured Coin

A feast for the eyes: Canada’s four seasons unfold in this special-shaped collage.

Spring, summer, fall and winter—this eye-catching collage invites you to step into the Canadian landscape and experience the four seasons that shape life in Canada. From spring’s bright hues and sun-soaked summer greenery, to fall’s foliage-led colour change and winter’s snowy slumber, all four seasons unfold before your eyes, forming a spectrum of colours within the maple leaf that gives shape to our celebration of Canada’s natural beauty.

The perfect follow-up to the 2022 Canadian Collage coin.

Features

A Canada for all seasons. Celebrate the spectacular beauty of Canada through all four seasons! The follow-up to the 2022 Canadian Collage, your 2023 maple leaf-shaped collage is beautifully engraved on a 3 oz. 99.99% pure silver canvas.
A Canadian maple leaf. On your coin’s reverse, the collage is shaped like the leaf from a black maple, one of 10 Canadian maple species.
Low mintage. Only 2,500 coins are available to collectors worldwide.
Includes serialized certificate. The Royal Canadian Mint certifies all of its collector coins.
No GST/HST.

Design

Designed by artist Caitlin Lindstrom-Milne, your coin’s reverse features a composite of landscape features from across Canada, framed by the outline of a black maple (Acer nigrum) leaf and backed by Canada geese (Branta canadensis) flying in a V formation—a sign of the changing seasons in Canada. The four-season view begins with a spring scene on the left, where a tundra swan (Cygnus columbianus) swims past flowery meadows and mountains under a colourful morning sky. The scene transitions to a bright summer day, as a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) catches its next meal. Beneath the migrating geese in the sky, the green foliage turns to red, orange, brown and yellow in the fall view, in which the setting sun casts its glow on the grasslands and the iconic bison (Bison bison). The final view, with its sleepy Arctic fox (Vulpes lagopus), captures the tranquil beauty of winter in Canada, while an iceberg adrift in the ocean hints at the eventual return of spring.

The obverse features the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt. The obverse also bears a special marking that includes four pearls symbolizing the four effigies that have graced Canadian coins and the double date of her reign.

Packaging

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

Specifications

Face Value: $50
Mintage: 2,500
Composition: 99.99% Silver
Weight (g): 94.25
Diameter (mm): 55
Finish: Proof