Today we will start a new series called "Canadian Wildlife".
The Canadian Royal Mint is known by its high quality work and the enormous number of commemorative coins issued each year. Among these commemoratives we find many, individual or in series, under the theme "wildlife".
Canada, with its vast lands and seas, is the home of a varied fauna and that will be showed in this series.
I will try to post land animals, sea animals and birds, in that order.
The first is a 2004 $2 "Proud Polar Bear".
Issued jointly by the Royal Canadian Mint and Canada Post, the $2 Proud Polar Bear Stamp and Coin Set contains the first single metal two dollar Canadian coin. This coin is unusual in that it carries two maple leaf privy marks.
It weights 8.8g with silver purity of 92.5% and Proof finish. The mintage was 12,607 units.
The reverse shows a bear facing right and it was engraved by Brent Townsend.
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