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25 Cents - Elizabeth II Hope for a Green Future, colored
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Value | 25 Cents |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse features a colorized design celebrating Canada's 150th anniversary, depicting a hummingbird in flight rendered in teal and blue tones above a stylized plant stem, alongside two turtles also finished in applied color — one brown with a teal floral motif and one teal with a white maple leaf motif — all nestled within a pair of cupped human hands suggesting stewardship of nature. The legend CANADA arcs along the upper left periphery and 25 CENTS along the upper right, with the commemorative date span 1867–2017 inscribed along the lower right field. The designer's initials CW appear discreetly in the mid-field. |
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Part of a short-lived Royal Canadian Mint initiative to introduce color printing to circulation-quality coinage, this issue was distributed through circulation channels rather than sold exclusively as a collector piece — an unusual decision that left most examples in change jars rather than albums. The "Hope for a Green Future" quarter was tied to Canada's 150th anniversary programming in 2017, which generated an unusually broad range of thematic coinage across denominations.
The three-ply nickel finish plated steel construction had been standard Canadian quarter production since the mid-2000s cost-reduction reforms that eliminated the earlier pure nickel composition.