The Voyageur design has appeared on Canadian coinage since 1935, when Emanuel Hahn's image of a common loon — widely misidentified in popular literature as a duck — was selected for the dollar coin. This oversized kilo-plus issue is part of the Royal Canadian Mint's ongoing series of large-format ultra-high relief pieces aimed squarely at the collector market, produced in extremely limited numbers with each strike requiring multiple press applications to achieve full relief depth.
The unusual oval flan — 180 by 120 mm — required custom tooling outside the Mint's standard production infrastructure.
The Voyageur design has appeared on Canadian coinage since 1935, when Emanuel Hahn's image of a common loon — widely misidentified in popular literature as a duck — was selected for the dollar coin. This oversized kilo-plus issue is part of the Royal Canadian Mint's ongoing series of large-format ultra-high relief pieces aimed squarely at the collector market, produced in extremely limited numbers with each strike requiring multiple press applications to achieve full relief depth.
The unusual oval flan — 180 by 120 mm — required custom tooling outside the Mint's standard production infrastructure.