The giant sulphur (Colias Gigantea) steals the show on this breathtaking coin. It isone of Canada's largest sulphurs with a wingspan of 37 to 55 mm and is one of the few butterfly species known to inhabit the Arctic. Most people will spot this wonder throughout the northern and westernregions of Canada, in moist areas like bogs, meadows and roadside ditches where willows and flowers areplentiful.

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• LENTICULAR 3D BOX: Your coin's beauty box uses a lenticular design to portray the butterfly flapping its wings in a3D-like manner!
• This painted and engraved 99.99% pure silver coin features shimmer colour on the butterfly's wings to highlight the intense coloration of the Colias gigantea butterfly.
• Beautiful mirror-like proof in fine silver.
• Celebrate the life and habits of a beloved Canadian insectspecies, beautifully engraved and painted.
• A low mintage of 10,000 coins means that this edition is sure to be sought after by collectors.
• A lovely addition to any collection featuring fine artwork, natural images, native species of Canada, butterflies and other insect species, or Canadiana.
• Your coin is GST/HST exempt and has a limited mintage worldwide.

Designed by Canadian artist Celia Godkin, your coin features a portrait of a Colias gigantea drinking nectar from the heart of a wild strawberry flower. The butterfly, engraved and painted in shimmery, light-reflective colour, is viewed in profile from its right side. Standing on one of two strawberry blossoms engraved in exceptionaldetail, alongside a bud and three leaves from the same plant, the brightly coloured butterfly characteristically raises its wings as it stands and feeds. Here we are treated to a view of the lovely silver dot on the underside of its wing.

Your coin is encapsulated and presented ina Royal Canadian Mint branded maroon clamshell caselined with flock and protected by a lenticular 3D beauty box, which portrays the butterfly flapping itswings.

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