5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Peregrine Falcon and Nestlings

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.