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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Amber Valley
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2024 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse depicts a richly detailed vignette commemorating the Amber Valley Black settlement in Alberta, Canada. In the foreground, two pioneering figures stand prominently: a woman cradling an infant and a man in period attire including a wide-brimmed hat, both rendered in high relief. Behind them, a covered wagon, farm equipment, horses, and rustic settlement buildings evoke the early twentieth-century homesteading era. An outline map of the province of Alberta is visible in the upper left field, beneath a stylized tree with maple leaves. The legend CANADA arcs along the upper rim, with the engraver's initials VDL inscribed in the lower left field. |
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The Amber Valley settlement in Alberta was established in 1910 by Black homesteaders, many from Oklahoma fleeing post-Reconstruction racial violence and discriminatory land laws. The Canadian government, despite actively recruiting American settlers, simultaneously worked to discourage Black immigration through bureaucratic obstruction and spurious medical rejections at the border. That the community survived and persisted for generations is the kind of history the RCM has increasingly drawn on for its commemorative program — a program that by 2024 was issuing well over a hundred silver collector pieces annually.