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3 Dollars - Elizabeth II Bee and Hive
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2013 |
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| Thickness | 2 mm |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a richly detailed, selectively coloured composition celebrating the honey bee and its vital role in pollination. Dominating the field is an enlarged, naturalistically rendered honey bee, depicted in vibrant polychrome applied colour — with yellow and amber body, translucent veined wings, and compound purple eyes — perched upon a white multi-petalled flower, likely an apple blossom. Behind the bee, a large honeycomb lattice rendered in engraved relief fills the upper and central field, its hexagonal cells providing strong geometric contrast to the organic subject. The denomination 3 DOLLARS is inscribed in raised letters along the upper arc, CANADA along the lower arc, and the date 2013 appears to the right in the mid-field. The designer's initials YBF are visible at lower left within the field. |
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| Mintage | 2013 - proof - 9,993 |
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The 2013 Royal Canadian Mint $3 silver series leaned heavily into natural history themes during a period when the mint was aggressively expanding its collector program — annual new-issue counts had climbed into the hundreds by this point, fragmenting collector attention and driving secondary market premiums down on most issues within months of release. Honeybee-themed issues from this era were partly tied to growing public awareness of colony collapse disorder, which had been devastating North American commercial apiaries since roughly 2006.