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20 Dollars - Elizabeth II Inuit Nunangat
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2021 |
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| Orientation | Medal alignment ↑↑ |
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| Obverse description | Right-facing effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by engraver Susan Taylor, depicting the sovereign at approximately 77 years of age, bare-headed, wearing a necklace and earrings. The portrait presents a mature, realistic likeness in high relief against a smooth field. The obverse legend encircling the portrait reads ELIZABETH II D•G•REGINA with the denomination 20 DOLLARS, all rendered in Latin script. |
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| Reverse description | The reverse, designed by Nunatsiavut artist Jason Sikoak, depicts Nuliajuk, the Inuit Sea Goddess, shown as a long-haired Inuk figure transforming into a half-woman, half-fish form as she descends beneath stylized ocean waves. Her fingers metamorphose into seals and other marine mammals, illustrating the central narrative of this Inuit legend from Inuit Nunangat. The composition is rendered in a distinctive contemporary Indigenous artistic style with fluid, expressive lines conveying both the mythological gravitas and the spiritual significance of the subject. An Inuktitut syllabic inscription identifying the homeland appears alongside the Latin legends CANADA and the year 2021. |
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Issued to mark the formal recognition of Inuit Nunangat as a distinct region within Canadian policy — a designation formalized through the 2019 Inuit Nunangat Policy, the first of its kind adopted by the federal government — this piece belongs to the RCM's long-running series of fine silver commemoratives aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation. Mintage on these issues is typically capped low enough to sell out on subscription.