Get Vendio Gallery – Now FREE! 2014 Swimming Beaver – 5 oz. Pure Silver Proof Coin. A beautiful 5 oz. Fine silver coin celebrating a Canadian national icon! Composition – fine silver (99.99% pure). Weight (g) – 157.6 (5 troy ounces). Diameter (mm) – 65. Certificate serialized (serial numbers will vary). Face value – 50 dollars (a legal tender Canadian coin). Artists – Emily Damstra (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse). Played a major role in Canadas colonial history. It became a primary motivator for the European explorers of the 17th century to forego their search for a passage to Asia and to focus instead on the natural resources offered by the North American continent. With fur at its zenith in European fashions, the profits from beaver pelt were enough to feed settlement of the new continent by England and France. Each coin is engraved in exquisite detail to celebrate one of Canadas most important national icons. This coin is a great gift and collectible to celebrate Canadas natural wonders, Canadian fauna, and the countrys unique iconography. This coin will be a prestigious addition to any collection focused around nature or Canadiana. Each 50-dollar coin is certified to be fine silver (99.99% pure) with a diameter of 65 millimeters and a metal weight of 5 troy ounces. Limited mintage of only 1,500 of these fine coins worldwide. Designed by Canadian artist Emily Damstra, this coins design occupies the entirety of the coin. It features a portrait of a beaver in mid-dive, a gnawed portion of a tree gripped firmly by the beavers chisel-shaped incisors. Each coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint-branded maroon clamshell case lined with flock and protected by a black sleeve. Check out my other items. Be sure to add me to your favorites list. PHOTOGRAPHS – When a listing offers multiples of the same coin for sale, one coin is. Picked at random and. Since all of the coins offered in the listing are essentially identical, the coin photographed is representative of all of the coins offered. What is a Troy Ounce? When someone speaks of something weighing an ounce, the chances are that they are referring to an Avoirdupois Ounce, which is the seldom-used “official” name for the ordinary ounce. Bathroom scales, kitchen scales, produce scales, and other “ordinary” scales calibrated in ounces use the ordinary “Avoirdupois” ounces. However gold, silver, platinum, and gunpowder are measured using a different system of weight – the Troy Ounce. The two ounces, Avoirdupois and Troy, are not the same. An “ordinary” (Avoirdupois) Ounce is exactly 28.349523125 grams – or 437.5 grains. A Troy Ounce is exactly 31.1034768 grams – or 480 grains. The “price per ounce” of gold, silver, and platinum quoted in the precious metals and commodities markets are always for Troy Ounces. Troy Ounces are the measurement used worldwide for precious metals. This includes bullion weights; the commodity market’s price-per-ounce of gold, silver, platinum (also the other rare “Platinum Group Metals” rhodium, ruthenium, osmium, palladium and iridium); the precious metal “spot price”; and graphs that track the price changes of precious metals over time. The item “Canada 2014 $50 Swimming Beaver 5 Troy Oz. Pure Silver Uncirculated Proof Coin” is in sale since Sunday, November 30, 2014. This item is in the category “Coins & Paper Money\Coins\ Canada\Commemorative”. The seller is “okranchlandandcattlecompany” and is located in Lewisville, Texas. This item can be shipped to United States, to Canada, to United Kingdom, DK, RO, SK, BG, CZ, FI, HU, LV, LT, MT, EE, to Australia, GR, PT, CY, SI, SE, to Belgium, to France, to Hong Kong, to Ireland, to Netherlands, PL, to Spain, to Italy, to Germany, to Austria, SG, NO, HR, CL, CO, CR, PA, TT, GT, HN, JM.
- Certification: Royal Canadian Mint
- Circulated/Uncirculated: Uncirculated
- Country/Region of Manufacture: Canada
- Country of Manufacture: Canada
- Composition: Silver
- Strike Type: Proof
- Edge: Serrated