25 Dollars - Elizabeth II Olympic Spirit

Part of the Royal Canadian Mint's extended program of collector issues tied to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, this piece was released more than a year before the Games opened — a deliberate commercial strategy to sustain revenue across multiple fiscal years rather than concentrate sales at a single point. The Vancouver organizing committee's licensing arrangements with the Mint were among the most commercially aggressive in Olympic host history, producing well over a hundred distinct collector coins across the lead-up period.