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25 Cents - Elizabeth II Wheelchair Curling, colored
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2007 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | Central design depicting a Paralympic athlete in a wheelchair delivering a curling stone across the ice, rendered in strong relief with fine detail on the chair's spokes and the athlete's outstretched posture. Occupying the right half of the field is a large maple leaf outline filled with vivid red colorization, referencing the Canadian national symbol and the Vancouver 2010 Paralympic Games branding. The denomination 25 CENTS appears to the upper left, while the legend VANCOUVER 2010 arcs along the lower periphery. The trademark initials GG appear in the lower central field, and TM/MC follows the main legend, denoting official Games trade-mark status. |
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One of fourteen colored 25-cent pieces issued by the Royal Canadian Mint ahead of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, this coin appeared three years before the Games as part of a sustained marketing push that began in 2007. Canada's wheelchair curling program had its first Paralympic gold at Turin in 2006, giving the sport a timely promotional hook.
The colored nickel-plated steel format was a deliberate mass-market approach — these were struck for circulation, not just collector sets, making them genuinely findable in change at the time of issue.