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150 Dollars - Elizabeth II Atlantic Walrus, platinum
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2003 |
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| Diameter | 25 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II D G REGINA 2003 |
| Reverse description | The reverse presents a finely detailed naturalistic scene featuring two Atlantic Walruses (Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus) resting together on an ice floe, their characteristic long ivory tusks and heavily wrinkled hides rendered with exceptional sculptural relief. The animals are depicted in a three-quarter view, with Arctic waters and ice visible in the background. The legend 'CANADA' arcs boldly along the upper periphery in widely spaced capital letters, while the denomination '150 DOLLARS' is inscribed in a curved arrangement along the lower portion of the field. The composition occupies the majority of the reverse field, showcasing the naturalistic artistic style typical of the Royal Canadian Mint's wildlife bullion series. |
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Canada's platinum bullion and collector series launched in 1990 with the maple leaf, but the wildlife-themed issues that followed in the early 2000s drew on Canada's long tradition of natural history coinage. The Atlantic walrus population, concentrated around the Gulf of St. Lawrence and the eastern Arctic, had been subject to Inuit subsistence hunting for millennia and faced sharp pressure from commercial hunting in the 19th century — the species never fully recovered its pre-contact numbers in Atlantic Canadian waters.
The .9995 purity specification was a deliberate one-up on the original platinum maple leaf's .9995 standard maintained since the series began, keeping the Royal Canadian Mint's platinum products among the purest available from any sovereign issuer at the time.