The Royal Canadian Mint has just unveiled a new pure gold coin, a stunning tribute to Canadians’ role at the end of the Second World War. History buf…
The Royal Canadian Mint has just unveiled a new pure gold coin, a stunning tribute to Canadian s’ role at the end of the Second World War.
History buffs and coin collectors will want to get their hands on this new design, which commemorates the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War in Europe. Towards the end of the war, the First Canadian Army went to the Netherlands from 1944 to 1945, where they fought from town to town and "sometimes, house to house, bringing freedom and relief to Dutch civilians who had endured five years of hardship and occupation.
Canadian artist Neil Hamelin designed the coin's reverse, which depicts a hero's welcome. The design shows a procession of Canadian soldiers rolling into a Dutch town. A Canadian soldier kneels before a young girl offering him a tulip, a symbol of "peace, gratitude and friendship."The coin has a face value of $100 and costs $1,599.95. It weighs 7.8 grams, measures 20 mm in diameter, and is made with 99.99 per cent pure gold.
Buyers will receive the coin in a maroon Royal Canadian Mint-branded clamshell box and a serialized certificate of authenticity.Dollarama quietly gets rid of self-checkouts at some Ontario storesCanada's skyrocketing population is about to hit 42 million peopleCanada's richest man's fortune grows by $20 billion in months despite prison time
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