25 Cents - Elizabeth II Caribou

The caribou quarter design traces back to Emanuel Hahn's 1936 submission, chosen through a competition organized after the Canadian government decided domestic wildlife should replace the Imperial imagery still dominant on circulation coinage. Hahn's original was modeled on a mounted specimen at the Royal Ontario Museum. This .9999 fine iteration is a modern collector restrike of that foundational design at substantially enlarged scale — the circulation original being one of the longest-running uninterrupted reverse designs in Canadian coinage history, surviving metric conversion, metal changes, and four monarchs.