50 Cents - Elizabeth II Great Northern Art Festival (Inuvik)

Issued as part of the Royal Canadian Mint's festival coin series, this piece commemorates the Great Northern Arts Festival held annually in Inuvik, Northwest Territories — a ten-day summer event established in 1989 that draws Indigenous and northern artists from across the Arctic. The festival was conceived explicitly to provide a commercial and cultural platform for Inuit, Dene, and Métis artists who lacked southern market access.

The series ran through the early 2000s with strictly limited mintages, and distribution was heavily weighted toward collector channels rather than circulation.