Part of the RCM's coloured wildlife quarter series, this issue used a dry-transfer colour application process that the mint had been refining since its first coloured coin in 1999 — a poppy quarter that caused immediate controversy when the U.S. Army warned soldiers it might be a surveillance device. The Wood Duck issue arrived as the series was well past its novelty peak, aimed squarely at the collector market with no genuine circulation intent.
Part of the RCM's coloured wildlife quarter series, this issue used a dry-transfer colour application process that the mint had been refining since its first coloured coin in 1999 — a poppy quarter that caused immediate controversy when the U.S. Army warned soldiers it might be a surveillance device. The Wood Duck issue arrived as the series was well past its novelty peak, aimed squarely at the collector market with no genuine circulation intent.