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50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mythical Realms of the Haida: The Orca
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2016 |
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| Value | 50 Dollars |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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The Mythical Realms of the Haida series drew directly from the oral traditions of the Haida Nation of Haida Gwaii, the archipelago off British Columbia's northern coast. The Royal Canadian Mint collaborated with Haida artists to ensure the formline design vocabulary — the system of ovoids, U-forms, and split U-forms governing Northwest Coast art — was rendered with cultural accuracy rather than approximation. That collaboration was deliberate; earlier government-issued "Indigenous-themed" Canadian coins had drawn criticism for exactly that kind of outside interpretation.
The .9999 fine silver specification here is notable — the series predates the Mint's wholesale adoption of that purity as a default for collector issues by only a narrow margin.