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25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Grotesque Foliated Green Man
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 25 Dollars |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents an ultra-high relief depiction of a Gothic grotesque known as the Green Man, an original interpretation by Dominion Sculptor Phillip White derived from a carved architectural detail on the East Block of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa. The bearded face stares intensely outward as it disgorges sinuous, stylized stiff-leaf foliage from its open mouth, with additional whirling leafy stems and tendrils composing the figure's brows and hair in the medieval Gothic tradition. The intricate sculptural detail is rendered with exceptional depth and precision, showcasing the coin's ultra-high relief minting technique. The legend CANADA 25 DOLLARS 2016 is distributed around the periphery of the reverse field. |
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| Mintage | 2016 - Proof - 1,822 |
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The Green Man is a pre-Christian architectural motif found carved into the stonework of medieval European churches — its appearance in sacred Christian spaces never fully explained, likely absorbed into ecclesiastical decoration from older folk traditions. The Royal Canadian Mint has issued several iterations of the subject in its ongoing collector series, with the "Grotesque" variant drawing specifically from the distorted, wide-mouthed carvings found on Gothic cathedral corbels and misericords rather than the more benign foliate versions.
The .9999 fine silver specification places this issue among the RCM's premium bullion-adjacent collector strikes of the period, where fineness became a marketing differentiator against standard .999 silver.