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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Peregrine Falcon and Nestlings
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2006 |
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| Weight | 28.00 g |
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| Obverse description | Proof-finished obverse featuring the fourth effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by engraver Susan Taylor, depicting the monarch as a mature draped bust facing right. The Queen wears a necklace and earrings, with her hair styled in a characteristic coiffure. The legend ELIZABETH II arcs along the left rim and D·G·REGINA along the right rim in raised Latin characters. The portrait is rendered in high relief against a deeply mirrored proof field, with a fine beaded border encircling the design. |
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| Obverse lettering | ELIZABETH II D·G·REGINA SB (Translation: Elizabeth II Queen by the grace of God) |
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Part of the RCM's long-running Birds of Canada series, this issue appeared the same year Environment Canada reported that peregrine falcon populations had sufficiently recovered to be downlisted from "Endangered" to "Special Concern" under SARA — a direct consequence of the DDT ban enacted three decades earlier. The falcon had effectively vanished as a breeding species from eastern Canada by the 1970s.
The .9999 fineness was a deliberate marketing distinction the RCM pushed aggressively through the mid-2000s to differentiate its collector silver from the .999 standard used by most sovereign mints.