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25 Cents - Elizabeth II Ruby-throated Hummingbird
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Weight | 12.61 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse lettering | CANADA 25 CENTS 2007 |
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This piece belongs to the RCM's "Lucky Loonie" spin-off period, when the mint was aggressively expanding into coloured and specimen coinage aimed squarely at the collector market rather than circulation. The ruby-throated hummingbird is the only hummingbird species that breeds east of the Mississippi and across most of Canada's populated south — a deliberate choice for a coin intended to move through gift shops and nature centres rather than cash registers.
The selective colouring was applied using a proprietary process the RCM had been refining since its first coloured quarter in 1999, issued for Remembrance Day.