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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Clarenville Event
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | The obverse bears the fourth definitive effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by engraver Susan Taylor, depicting the monarch at approximately 77 years of age in right-facing portrait. The Queen is shown bareheaded, adorned with a necklace and earrings, in a refined and naturalistic style. The surrounding legend reads ELIZABETH II D·G·REGINA, with the denomination 20 DOLLARS and the date 2020 completing the inscriptions in the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II 20 DOLLARS D·G·REGINA 2020 (Translation: Elizabeth II Queen by the grace of God) |
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The "Clarenville Event" refers to a mass UFO sighting reported on November 26, 1978, near Clarenville, Newfoundland, where RCMP Constable James Blackwood observed and radioed in a structured aerial object over Random Island for roughly an hour. The incident remains one of the most credibly documented unexplained sightings in Canadian history, given the official source. This coin is part of the RCM's broader "Unexplained Phenomena" series, which has drawn on specifically Canadian cases rather than internationally recycled lore.
The .9999 fineness is consistent with the RCM's collector silver output from this period — finer than the old .999 benchmark the mint moved away from after 2014.