Head of Queen Elizabeth II, as at 64 years of age, wearing the royal diadem, necklace, and earrings, facing right.
Obverse script
Latin
Obverse lettering
ELIZABETH II D·G·REGINA
25 CENTS (Translation: Elizabeth II Queen by the grace of God)
Reverse description
An elderly person, representing the last millennium and sharing at daylight the Canadian heritage, symbolized by the maple leaf, with the new millennium, embodied by youth is surrounded with the bilingual inscriptions `CANADA` and `WISDOM 2000 SAGESSE`