Insects

Theme:The first coin in the Royal Canadian Mint’s exciting new series featuring Canada’s animal architects focuses on the honey bee and its amazing home. Description:This silver proof coin is certified to be 99.99% pure silver with a...

One of Nature's Most Ephemeral Moments, Captured ForeverWith its front legs bent forever in seeming supplication, this carnivorous insect's predatory ferocity is easy to underestimate. Engraved from photographer Robert Ganz's award-winning Canadian...

Nature's Canny Cultivator: The Bumble BeeIt is one of summer's iconic moments: a buzzing black-and-yellow bumble bee plodding heavily from delicate bloom to delicate bloom. A subgroup of the roughly 730 described species of bees(Apoidea: Anthophila) in...

Enjoy the season’s breezy beauty with this stunning set of three painted coins featuring authentic Murano glass insects. Highly popular when they were first released beginning in 2011, these coins are available again with a low worldwide mintage in...

Nature is a source of endless fascination, and this beautiful coloured coin celebrates one of its tiniest creations with a Murano glass beetle poised on a coloured design of a dogbane plant. Murano glass is famous for its bright, fluid colours, and this...

A delicate butterfly pauses to sip daisy nectar, its outspread wings glowing with crystalline beauty! In a Royal Canadian Mint first, this coin has added a semi-precious agate embellishment to an engraved 1-ounce coin of 99.99% pure silver. PRODUCT...

Celebrate the timeless beauty of Canada’s dragonflies with the Royal Canadian Mint’s popular Dragonfly series, which features painted dragonfly species set against holograms. The third issue in this series features the rare pygmy snaketail...

The second coin in the Royal Canadian Mint’s exciting Dragonfly series featuring painted dragonflies set in holograms features the striking Anax junius—the Green Darner. PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS:Item Number: 128863UPC:...

2005 BUTTERFLY COLLECTION – MONARCH Their bright and colourful wing patterns are a marvel.And every summer, people around the world arewitness to a fluttering art show as these natural worksof art take flight. Antarctica is the only...

2005 Butterfly Collection: Great Spangled FratillaryThe fourth coin in our popular Butterfly Collection brings the Great Spangled Fritillary into the spotlight with a dazzling hologram. There are 26 species of fritillaries throughout Canada and the Great...

Nature is awesome. This captivating coin highlights one of nature’s greatest partnerships that enables the mountains of western Canada to thrive. An orange-belted bumble bee gives life to flowers as it flies from bloom to bloom to collect the...

Bursting with a dizzying array of colours, the natural world boasts an unparalleled beauty that seemingly stuns and dazzles at every turn! Human ingenuity strives to recreate this sparkle of life in art; in a celebration of nature’s spectrum of...

The third and final coin in the Royal Canadian Mint’s Butterflies of Canada series celebrates the bright yellow Colias gigantea with an exquisitely engraved and selectively coloured silver coin featuring reflective, shimmery colour to bring life...

The second coin in the Royal Canadian Mint’s Butterflies of Canada series celebrates the beautiful Red-Spotted Purple. PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS:SRP: $99.95Item Number: 130556UPC: 6-23932-05556-8Composition: 99.99% pure silverMintage: 10,000Weight...

  PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS: Composition: 99.99% Fine silverMintage: 10,000Weight (g)*: 31.39Diameter (mm): 38Face Value: $20Finish: ProofEdge: SerratedArtist: Maurice GervaisPackaging: Maroon clamshell...

 This eye-catching coin is the fourth in a series that pair engraved and painted flowers with a beautifully detailed rendering of an animal that is native to Canada’s natural landscape. PRODUCT...

Every summer, people around the world are witness to a fluttering art show as butterflies take flight. There are some 24,000 species of butterflies in the world and Canada is home to 297 of them, including the Canadian Tiger Swallowtail. Limited Mintage...

Theme:Canadian Tiger Swallowtail: Harbinger of SpringThe Canadian Tiger Swallowtail (Papilio canadensis) is one of Canada’s most recognizable butterflies. With its broad wingspan of up to ten centimetres and the distinctive yellow and black tiger...

Nature's Canny Cultivator It is one of summer's iconic moments: a buzzing black-and-yellow bumble bee plodding heavily from delicate bloom to delicate bloom. A subgroup of the roughly 730 described species of bees (Apoidea: Anthophila) in Canada, bumble...

Theme:The first issue in the Royal Canadian Mint’s exciting Dragonfly series featuring coloured dragonflies set in holograms. The first coin features the beautiful Libellula pulchella—the Twelve-Spotted Skimmer.Description:This silver proof...