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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Carolinian Tulip Tree
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2015 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Reverse description | Central design features a vibrant, selectively colour-applied bloom of the Carolinian Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera), rendered in yellow-green and white petals with delicate orange-red striping at the base, accompanied by dark green foliage in the foreground. Behind the floral motif, a frosted relief depicts the silhouette of a towering tulip tree trunk and a stylised map of Canada, evoking the tree's limited native range within Canadian Carolinian forest zones. The legend CANADA arcs along the upper rim, with the denomination 20 DOLLARS inscribed to the right of centre and the date 2015 at the lower right. The engraver's initials JC appear in the lower field. |
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| Reverse lettering | CANADA 20 DOLLARS 2015 JC |
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The Carolinian zone — a narrow band of southern Ontario between Windsor and Toronto — represents the northernmost reach of a forest ecosystem more typical of the American Southeast. The tulip tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) grows nowhere else in Canada, and its presence there is a biogeographical accident of post-glacial warming. The Royal Canadian Mint has issued numerous coins in its "Canada's Bounty" and nature series drawing on exactly this kind of ecological marginalia — species that are technically Canadian but barely.
Struck in .9999 fine silver, this was part of a broader 2015 push by the RCM into ultra-high-purity botanical issues aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation.