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9 Dollars - Elizabeth II Mapleflex Bar
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2018-2021 |
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| Weight | 62.2 g |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The reverse presents a composite of nineteen individual rectangular silver bar segments, each bearing a finely detailed engraving of a Canadian maple leaf rendered in high relief against a polished field. The segments are arranged in three rows: ten smaller 1/20 oz bars across the top, four larger 1/4 oz bars in the middle row, and five 1/10 oz bars along the bottom. Each segment bears the legends 'CANADA' and the date above the maple leaf motif, with the respective weight denomination and fineness designation '9999 Ag' inscribed below. The overall composition forms a unified flexbar sheet that can be separated into individual pieces. |
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The Mapleflex series occupies an odd niche in the Royal Canadian Mint's output — technically legal tender, but designed primarily as a stackable bullion product that bridges the gap between struck coin and poured bar. The $9 denomination is entirely arbitrary, chosen to distinguish the rectangular format from the standard Maple Leaf dollar coins rather than to reflect any meaningful face value relationship to silver spot.
Each piece is struck on a rectangular planchet with the Mint's .9999 fine silver specification, the same purity standard the RCM pioneered for the Maple Leaf series in 1988 — a benchmark that forced competitors including the U.S. Mint to eventually improve their own bullion fineness.