75 Dollars - Elizabeth II Great Blue Heron, platinum

The Great Blue Heron coin was part of the Royal Canadian Mint's early push into collector platinum — a market it had been developing aggressively since launching its Maple Leaf bullion series in 1988. By 2002, the Mint was producing low-mintage wildlife issues in .9995 fine platinum specifically to capture the high-end numismatic market rather than the bullion trade. Mintages on these pieces were deliberately restricted, typically to the low thousands, to preserve secondary market premiums.

KM#1098 is from the final year of Elizabeth II's third portrait by Dora de Pédery-Hunt on Canadian coinage, before the Susanna Blunt effigy was introduced in 2003.