25 Cents - Elizabeth II Red-breasted Nuthatch

Part of the Royal Canadian Mint's "Birds of Canada" coloured quarter series, which ran through the mid-2000s and applied selective enamel colouring directly to standard circulation-sized planchets — a process the Mint had been refining since its first coloured coin in 1999. The Nuthatch issue was struck for collectors rather than general release, meaning most examples were sold in carded presentation format and saw no pocket wear whatsoever.