- Country:Canada
- Collection:Silver Commemorative $20
- Metal:Silver
- Year:2012
- Denomination:$20
- Finish:Complete
- Weight (oz):1.009
- Purity:0.9999
- Mintage:5627
- Product type:Coin
Crafted in 99.99% pure silver and hand polished to proof perfection. 38 mm in diameter!
¥ Double-effigy coin (reverse and obverse)
¥ Design approved by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II
¥ The image is bordered by two decorative elements containing a shamrock, a (Tudor) rose, and a thistle (symbolic of the British Isles) as well as some maple leaves (symbolic of Canada)
Packaging:
Coin is encapsulated and presented in a black clamshell case lined with flock and protected by a black sleeve.
The Queen'sDiamond JubileeCollection
The year 2012 marks the Diamond Jubilee ofQueen Elizabeth II-a celebration of the 60th anniversaryof Her majesty's accession to the throne in 1952.
Celebrations in Canada and around the world willacknowledge The Queen's lifetime dedication andservice to her subjects, the Commonwealth andinnumerable charitable causes.
Don't miss out on these special edition Queen's DiamondJubilee coins. They will be among the most treasuredcoins for years to come.
Theme: A Young Princess Meets Her Prince
Queen Elizabeth II, the first-born child of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, began her public life when she was ateenager. Her first radio address, broadcast from Windsor Castle in 1940, attested to her mettle even from the young age of fourteen, as she encouraged andcomforted other children while bombs fell on London.
It was at the age of thirteen, while accompanying her parents on a royal tour of Dartmouth Naval College in 1939, that Princess Elizabeth met the dashing young Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten. The Lieutenant, five years her senior, was born a Prince of both Greece and Denmark, but his family had been exiled from Greece when he was a child. As he escorted Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret around the Dartmouth campus, young Elizabeth fell in love. After more than five years of letter-writing throughout the war, Philip asked for Elizabeth's hand in marriage in 1946.
After War, A Time to Celebrate
After the bleak days of war, Princess Elizabeth's wedding captured the world's imagination. The ceremony in Westminster Abbey on November 20, 1947, broadcast by radio to 200million people around the world, was relatively modest out of respect for Britain's war recovery effort.
Philip continued his naval career until Elizabeth's coronation in 1952. In the years that followed, he became a patron of hundreds of charitable organizations. Today, he is Britain's longest-serving consort.
A Lifelong Partnership
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip have four children and eight grandchildren, and continue their lifelong partnership of mutual support and service to the United Kingdom, theCommonwealth, and numerous individual organizationsand charities.
