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| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse lettering | CANADA EB 2022 |
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| Mintage | 2022 - Proof - 5,000 |
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Part of the RCM's broader wildlife-themed bullion program, this issue competes in a crowded market that the Mint has aggressively expanded since the early 2010s to capture collector-investors priced out of gold. The timber wolf had appeared on Canadian coinage before, most notably in the 2011 Wildlife series, making this a deliberate callback to one of that program's stronger sellers.
Being struck in .9999 fine silver rather than the more common .999 standard is a distinction the RCM has maintained across its premium issues since the 1990s — a marginal purity difference that nonetheless became a consistent marketing differentiator against the American Silver Eagle.