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200 Dollars - Elizabeth II Raven Bringing Light to World
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 1997 |
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| Thickness | 2 mm |
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| Obverse description | Effigy of Queen Elizabeth II facing right, rendered in high relief after the portrait by Dora de Pédery-Hunt, depicting the Queen at a mature age wearing the royal diadem, a necklace, and earrings. The legend 'ELIZABETH II' appears above, with '200 DOLLARS · CANADA 1997' arranged around the periphery of the field. |
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| Obverse lettering | 200 DOLLARS · CANADA 1997 · ELIZABETH II |
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This coin is part of the RCM's "Canadian Arctic Traditions" series, which drew on Inuit mythology for its imagery. The raven as a light-bringer appears across multiple Northwest Coast and Arctic Indigenous traditions — a trickster figure who steals and releases the sun, not simply a messenger. The 1997 issue was one of the earliest high-denomination RCM gold pieces explicitly built around Indigenous cosmology rather than purely Canadian state symbolism, a deliberate programming shift at the mint during the mid-1990s.
Mintage was capped at 1,500 pieces.