The nation of Canada is celebrating its 150^th anniversary in 2017, and the Royal Canadian Mint is reviving some of the nation’s greatest coinage designs as part of the celebration. One example is the Canadian Goose coin from the Big Coin Series, which revives a Canadian Centennial circulation design from 1967. Today, the 2017 5 oz Proof Canadian Silver Alex Colville Big Coin Series Canadian Goose Coin is available from JM Bullion.

Coin Highlights:

• Ships in a Royal Canadian Mint red clamshell.
• Limited mintage of only 2,150 coins!
• 1st release in the Big Coin: Alex Colville Designs Series!
• Contains 5 Troy oz of .9999 pure silver.
• Face value of $1 (CAD) is fully backed by Canada’s government.
• Obverse features the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II.
• Reverse bears the Canadian Goose design from the Canadian Centennial coin issue.
• Design from Alex Colville.

This coin is the first in a series that will help the nation of Canada celebrate 150 years in the Big Coin: Alex Colville Designs Series. As the first release, the Royal Canadian Mint went all out in the reproduction of the images found on the original Canadian Centennial circulation coins from 1967 on the nation’s 100^th anniversary.

Canadian artist Alex Colville’s 1967 Canadian Goose $1 (CAD) coin design is majestically recreated on these 2017 5 oz Proof Canadian Silver Big Coin Series Canadian Goose Coins. Both sides of the coin feature a selective gold plating around the rim, with the Canadian Goose plated in gold on the reverse and Queen Elizabeth II’s crown and dress plated on the obverse.

The reverse of each 2017 5 oz Proof Canadian Silver Alex Colville Big Coin Series product features the image of a Canadian Goose flying across the coin’s surface from right to left. Designed by Colville, this image appeared on the 100^th anniversary Canadian Centennial circulation dollars in 1967 as a symbol of the Canadian spirit.

On the obverse of each 2017 5 oz Proof Canadian Silver Canadian Goose Coin is the image of Queen Elizabeth II. Rather than the modern effigy from Susanna Blunt, the Royal Canadian Mint used Arnold Machin’s second-generation effigy of Her Majesty as appeared on Canadian coins in 1967.

These coins are part of the Big Coin Series as the third release, but also the first release in a group of coins set to celebrate the 150^th anniversary of Canada. They arrive in an RCM classic red clamshell for protection.

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