Canada: 2019 50-Cent Spooky Canada: HI Ottawa Jail Hostel Coin

Canada: 2019 50-Cent Spooky Canada: HI Ottawa Jail Hostel Coin

Design: The two-image lenticular design by Emmanuel Julian Madail Monzon shows a ghostly encounter in one of Canada's most haunted buildings. The first image shows a visitor entering a former jail during an evening tour of the HI Ottawa Jail Hostel, where the bar door is left ajar. When the coin is tilted, the door is closed and the eerie ghost of a former inmate—perhaps Patrick Whelan, who was hanged for the 1868 assassination of Thomas D'Arcy McGee, a Father of Confederation—appears behind the terrified visitor and looks directly at the viewer. The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.

Mintage: 100,000

Composition: three-ply nickel finish plated steel

Finish: specimen

Weight (g): 12.61

Diameter (mm):35

Edge: plain

Face value: 50 cents

Artist: Emmanuel Julian Madail Monzon (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)

Packaging: Your coin is packaged in a custom folder that invites you to enter the old jail… if you dare.