Cindy Klassen, who won five medals at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics — one gold, two silver, two bronze — remains Canada's most decorated athlete at a single Winter Games. This coin was issued as part of the Royal Canadian Mint's Olympic athlete series ahead of the 2010 Vancouver Games, a program that applied color printing directly onto the coin's surface using a process the Mint had been developing since its first colored quarter in 1999. The colored variant carries a distinct catalog number from its uncolored counterpart, a separation that matters for set completeness.
Cindy Klassen, who won five medals at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics — one gold, two silver, two bronze — remains Canada's most decorated athlete at a single Winter Games. This coin was issued as part of the Royal Canadian Mint's Olympic athlete series ahead of the 2010 Vancouver Games, a program that applied color printing directly onto the coin's surface using a process the Mint had been developing since its first colored quarter in 1999. The colored variant carries a distinct catalog number from its uncolored counterpart, a separation that matters for set completeness.