Description
Two versions of our 2025 tribute to Daphne Odjig in one easy-to-display collectible.
The recipient of some of Canada’s highest honours, and the first First Nations woman artist to be represented on a Canadian circulation coin, Daphne Odjig and her art are honoured on the 2025 $2 commemorative coin that pays tribute to her legacy—as a creative force for change. There are two versions of the $2 Celebrating the Life and Art of Daphne Odjig, colourized and engraved only, and this affordably priced, two-coin Commemorative Collector Keepsake Card guarantees you’ll have both.
Add Daphne Odjig’s art to your collection.
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Special features
- Exceptional art, exceptional artist. The $2 commemorative circulation coin honours one of the most important artists active in Canada in the 20th century: Daphne Odjig, who, through her colourful works and advocacy, worked to put Indigenous art on an equal footing with other fine arts.
- New format. Redesigned in 2024 to keep the focus on the commemorative theme, each Commemorative Collector Keepsake Card contains two (2) uncirculated coins: a colourized $2 Celebrating the Life and Art of Daphne Odjig coin, and a non-colourized one.
- Affordably priced. Your two coins come in a colourful folder that presents and explains the theme, and at just $14.95, this is one of our most affordable collectibles in 2025!
- A first for a Canadian circulation coin. This is the first circulation coin to focus on the life and work of a First Nations woman artist.
- Painting a story. The $2 coin’s reverse design is based on Odjig’s Folk Singer, brought to life by a selective application of colour on the colourized coin. It is an inspiring representation of the bold line and colour work that characterized much of her work.
- Limited supply. A total of 50,000 keepsake cards are available worldwide.
Packaging
Your two $2 commemorative circulation coins come packaged together in a colourful folder designed for easy handling, viewing and sharing.
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Features
Layers of meaning
On the reverse, the outer ring includes Odjig’s drawing of a fisher, as it appears above her signature on her 1978 masterpiece The Indian in Transition, where it serves as a visual representation of her surname (the anglicized version of “Odjig” is “Fisher”)
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