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20 Dollars In the name of George V, WWI - Canada
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Thickness | 3.29 mm |
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| Reverse description | Dynamic scene depicting Canadian cavalry of the First World War charging forward at full gallop across a battlefield, rendered in high relief against a darkened silver field. Selective 24-karat gold plating highlights the shoulder badge of the Canadian Expeditionary Force (C.E.F.), a defining emblem of Canada's wartime identity, prominently featured within the composition. The scene conveys the energy and sacrifice of Canadian forces on the Western Front during the Great War. Inscriptions identify the issuing country and commemorate the centennial of the war's conclusion. |
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| Reverse lettering | PY CANADA 1918 - 2018 |
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Issued in 2018 to mark the centenary of the First World War's final year, this coin draws on Canada's outsized contribution to the Allied effort — a nation of roughly eight million people that put over 600,000 men in uniform. The obverse carries George V's effigy despite his death in 1936, a deliberate anachronism tying the commemorative to the wartime monarch under whose authority Canadian forces served.
The .9999 fine silver specification places it among the RCM's bullion-adjacent commemorative issues rather than its standard collector series, which used .925 through most of the twentieth century.