Description
Specifications:
Item Number: 250902
SRP: $479.95
Mintage: 2,750
Composition: 99.99% pure silver with yellow gold plating
Weight*: 100.74 g Diameter: 50 mm
Face Value: $50
Finish: Proof
Edge: Serrated
Artists: Maurade Baynton (reverse) Steven Rosati (obverse)
Packaging: Black clamshell with black beauty box
Finished Size: 118 mm x 97 mm UPC: 6-23932-11966-6
Key Features
➢ One of several beaver-themed collectibles in 2025, which marks the 50th anniversary of the designation of Castor canadensis as an official symbol of Canadian sovereignty.
➢ The relief goes even higher than the 2024 Year of the Dragon Double EHR coin, up to 4.15 mm on this coin’s obverse and 6 mm on its reverse.
➢ Enclosed in a protective floating capsule with extra-wide sides. ➢ Mintage limited to 2,750 coins worldwide.
The Story
An official emblem of Canada since 1975, the beloved beaver is a natural ecosystem engineer, known for altering the environment to suit its needs. Though many of Castor canadensis’ busy building activities are obscured from our land-based view, its labours are front and centre on this coin, where the two-sided design welcomes you into the beaver’s secret world by presenting different views of the same scene. Think of the coin as the water’s surface, with one side (reverse) our view from above the water, and the other (obverse) a view from below. And on both sides, the perspective of the beaver family hard at work on their new home is engraved in Extraordinarily High Relief (EHR) and selectively plated with yellow gold. It’s a specially engineered tribute to the beaver’s instinctive ingenuity, one that fuses the art of engineering and the spirit of the Canadian wilderness!
