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150 Dollars - Elizabeth II Great Blue Heron, platinum
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Canada's platinum bullion and collector series launched in 1990 with wildlife subjects chosen partly to compete with the American Platinum Eagle, which had debuted in 1997 — though the RCM had been refining platinum from Sudbury Basin byproduct streams well before a dedicated coin program existed. The Great Blue Heron selection for this denomination reflects the RCM's practice of rotating native fauna across the fractional platinum issues of the early 2000s.
Platinum from Canadian sources at this period came largely as a byproduct of nickel mining in Ontario's Sudbury complex, one of the few significant PGM sources outside Russia and South Africa.