15 Dollars - Elizabeth II The Wild Rivers Exploration

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.