25 Cents - Elizabeth II Happy Holidays

The Royal Canadian Mint began issuing coloured circulation-quality quarters in 2004 with a poppy design for Remembrance Day — a technical first for a coin intended for general circulation. The Holiday series followed that same production method, applying colour through a dry-ink transfer process rather than hand-painting or enamel. These coins entered general circulation but were widely pulled from change and saved, meaning survivors in true circulated condition are, counterintuitively, harder to find than uncirculated examples.