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The Royal Canadian Mint recently issued a 2008 Maple Leaf $20 pure silver coin, the "Crystal Raindrop", with colored reverse and a large embedded crystal. It's the first time the RCM combines color and crystal applications on a coin.
Canada started the Maple Leaf series of silver bullion coins in 1988. Since 2001, it also issues various proof, holographic, and colored silver Maple Leaf coins.
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This is the first Royal Canadian Mint issue I've seen that contains a crystal. I know it's the first to have a crystal and color but didn't even know they had done a crystal coin like this before without color. You have a great selection of coins on display here and it helps when trying to decide which coins to offer on my own world coins website, to have a place like this to visit and read about beautiful new releases. Thanks!
Posted by: Peter | August 25, 2008 at 03:47 AM