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250 Dollars - Elizabeth II Pysanka
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2022 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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The pysanka — the Ukrainian art of wax-resist egg dyeing — became politically charged in Canada almost immediately after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the same year this coin was struck. Canada's Ukrainian diaspora is the third-largest in the world outside Ukraine itself, numbering well over one million, and the Royal Canadian Mint has repeatedly drawn on that community's cultural heritage for high-premium collector issues. At 58.5 grams of .9999 gold, this is not a circulation piece by any measure — it targets the intersection of collector and community.
The pysanka tradition in Ukrainian culture predates Christianity, with geometric patterns carrying encoded symbolic meaning passed through family lineages.