Canada: 2021 $50 The Great Lakes 5 oz Pure Silver Coin

Canada: 2021 $50 The Great Lakes 5 oz Pure Silver Coin

Design: Designed by artist and Canadian Geographic cartographer, Chris Brackley, your coin’s reverse features a magnificent custom map of the Great Lakes region, rendered to a scale of “1:22 000 000”. All five lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario) have a luminous silver appearance thanks to a mirror-like (brilliant) finish, while their names appear as frosted elements. Each colour represents a different land cover: three shades of green to represent different forest types, blue/green represents wetland, pink represents urban space, yellow to represent farmland and lastly red lines indicate roadways. Beneath the word “CANADA” (right), a compass rose indicates direction, while graticules—lines representing longitude and latitude—are painted on the reverse and laser-engraved on the obverse. The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.

Mintage: 2000

Composition: 99.99 % pure silver

Finish: proof

Weight (g): 157.6

Diameter (mm): 65.25

Edge: serrated

Face value: $50

Artist: Chris Brackley (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)

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