- Country:Canada
- Collection:Silver Commemorative $5
- Metal:Silver
- Year:2014
- Denomination:$5
- Finish:Complete
- Weight (oz):0.289
- Purity:0.9999
- Mintage:2977
- Product type:Coin
Canada's gardens are filled with a tremendous variety offlowers, but a few of them remain all-time favourites year after year. One of them is the rose, arguably the crowning glory of gardens everywhere. This seemingly delicate beauty is as old as the dinosaurswith roughly 150 species blooming in the Northern Hemisphere.
Today, gardeners cherish the rose for its endless forms and colours, its fragrance and its historic reputation as thepreeminent exemplar of floral beauty from the Orient to the Middle East to Europe.
A beautiful gift for someone you know who loves flowers! Order yours today!
Special features:
¥ Second coin in this exciting newseries showcasing Canada's popular flowers.
¥ Beautifully crafted in 99.99% pure silver with a niobium core on each coin that has been individually oxidized to permanently change the colour of the metal. Set against the niobium background, the single coloured rose stands out in its own unique way.
¥ Give this coin as a creative twist to the rose bouquet. It's a wonderful work of art for gardeners and anyone who appreciates the beauty and history of roses!
¥ Limited to 6,000 coins worldwide-a must-have!
Design:
Your coin shows a single rose selectively coloured so it stands out from a sea of blooms-a tribute to the crowning glory of Canadian gardens from coast to coast. The design is further enhanced by the coin's oxidized niobium core to create a stunning, one-of-a-kind effect.
Did you knowÃ
¥ There's a tremendous variety of flowers to be found in Canadian gardens, but a few superstar blooms remain all-time favourites year after year. One of them is the rose, arguably the crowning glory of gardens just about everywhere.
¥ Roses have been growing on Earth for 35 million years. There are roughly 150 species in the Northern Hemisphere from Alaska to Mexico and northern Africa.
¥ Today, gardeners cherish the rose for its endless forms and colours, its fragrance and its historic reputation as the preeminent exemplarof floral beauty from the Orient to the Middle East to Europe.
¥ The niobium core on each of these rose coins has been individually oxidized for a spectacular one-of-a-kind patina that willlast forever. It creates a unique background to showcase the single flower that has been selectively coloured as a stunning tribute to every garden's reigning bloom.
