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15 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Wild Rivers Exploration
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 15 Dollars |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a dynamic scene commemorating Simon Fraser's legendary 1808 navigation of Hell's Gate on the Fraser River in British Columbia, one of the most treacherous river passages in North America. The design, bearing the engraver's initials JM, depicts adventurers in a canoe battling fierce rapids amid towering canyon walls, rendered with fine detail and a sense of dramatic movement. The composition pays tribute to the courage of early Canadian river explorers who traversed the country's wild waterways. The legend CANADA 2015 and denomination 15 DOLLARS appear within the reverse field, completing the design. |
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Part of the Royal Canadian Mint's ongoing "Exploring Canada" series, this issue commemorates the canoe routes used by Indigenous peoples and later by European fur traders along Canada's river systems — corridors that shaped the entire geography of colonial trade and settlement long before roads existed. The series draws on a tradition of narrative silver coins the RCM has produced since the 1990s, though by 2015 the program had shifted toward selective lenticular and coloring techniques to differentiate individual issues at retail.
Struck in .9999 fine silver, this is among the purest alloy specifications the RCM used for collector issues of this period.