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20 Dollars - In the name of Elizabeth II Pysanka
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2024 |
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| Engraver(s) | Susan Taylor |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II 20 DOLLARS DG REGINA 1952 ⁘ 2022 SB (Translation: Elizabeth II, Queen by the Grace of God.) |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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The pysanka — the Ukrainian Easter egg decorated through a wax-resist dyeing process — became a subject of particular symbolic weight in Canada following the mass displacement of Ukrainians after 1991 and the much earlier wave of immigration that brought over 170,000 Ukrainians to the Canadian prairies between 1891 and 1914. Canada's Ukrainian diaspora is now among the largest outside Ukraine itself, numbering well over a million. The Royal Canadian Mint has issued several culturally themed silver pieces acknowledging this community, this being among the more recent.
The .9999 fineness is consistent with the RCM's bullion-adjacent collector series rather than its standard .925 commemorative line — a distinction that affects secondary market premiums more than collectors sometimes realize.