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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Baby Deer
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Value | 20 Dollars |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II D·G·REGINA (Translation: Elizabeth II Queen by the grace of God) |
| Reverse description | The reverse, designed by celebrated Canadian wildlife artist Glen Loates and engraved by Susan Taylor, depicts a white-tailed deer fawn accompanied by its mother, a doe, set within a lush Canadian summer forest. The fawn is rendered in three-quarter profile, its reddish-brown coat highlighted with selective colour application that accentuates the characteristic rows of bright white spots extending from neck to tail along each flank. Fine engraving details the fawn's dark, pointed muzzle and attentive eyes, conveying a naturalistic tenderness, while the doe stands protectively alongside, her features captured in precise relief. In the background, sunlight filters through a canopy of coloured maple leaves, casting dappled shadows across a forest floor adorned with fallen timber and vegetation. The artist's initials GL appear in the lower field, and the overall composition exemplifies the Royal Canadian Mint's Wildlife series approach of combining detailed intaglio engraving with selective colour enhancement. |
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The "Baby Deer" belongs to the RCM's ongoing fine silver $20 series launched around 2012, which targeted gift buyers and collector newcomers at a $20 face-value price point that briefly matched the coin's retail cost — a deliberate accessibility strategy that proved enormously successful and spawned dozens of thematic wildlife issues annually. By 2015 the series had expanded so aggressively that the RCM was producing well over a hundred distinct $20 fine silver issues per year, a volume that has drawn sustained criticism from specialist collectors concerned about long-term secondary market viability.