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5 Dollars - Elizabeth II Portrait of Nanaboozhoo, Gold
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2014 |
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| Shape | Round |
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| Reverse description | Three-quarter profile effigy of Nanaboozhoo, the Ojibwa cultural hero and trickster figure, rendered in richly detailed high relief by Ojibwa artist Cyril Assiniboine. The figure is depicted in human form with traditional face paint applied across the visage, wearing a fur headdress adorned with upright feathers, from beneath which long braided hair descends. He is dressed in traditional Western Ojibwa regalia, with intricate surface detail capturing the texture of the costume and ornamentation. The date and denomination appear in the legend surrounding the design, with CANADA flanking the central motif. |
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| Mintage | 2014 - Proof - 3,000 |
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This piece belongs to the RCM's "Exploring Canada" series, which drew on Indigenous oral traditions at a moment when the mint was actively expanding its collector program into cultural storytelling. Nanaboozhoo — the trickster and transformer figure central to Anishinaabe cosmology — had rarely appeared on Canadian coinage, making the selection notable within the series.
The .9999 fineness was standard for RCM bullion-adjacent collector issues of this period, though the 3.14 g weight places it in the fractional gold category aimed squarely at the gift and collector market rather than investment stacking.