- Country:Canada
- Collection:Silver Commemorative $20
- Metal:Silver
- Year:2016
- Denomination:$20
- Finish:Complete
- Weight (oz):1.009
- Purity:0.9999
- Mintage:4004
- Product type:Coin
People adore animals, and this fine silver coin willmelt hearts all around with its colour design of a baby raccoon and its endearing bandit-masked face. Indeed, this baby raccoon will learn how to become a clever scavenger from its mother, who will spend roughly a year showing her kits how to find food. Whether in the country or on a city block, it's not uncommon for careful observers to catch a glimpse ofa mother raccoon leading her brood through the night.
The perfect coin to start a young person's collection! Order yours today!
Special features:
Your coin is the 8th coin in the popular Baby Animals series of fine silver coins that feature heart-warming images of baby animals in the Canadian wilderness.
SELECTIVE COLOURING beautifully complements the detailed engraving and adds a life-like quality to this depiction of a baby raccoon and mother in a wetland setting.
99.99% PURE SILVER! Your coin is crafted from 99.99% pure silver with a limited mintage worldwide!
Your coin is GST/HST exempt.
About the Design:
Designed by Canadian artist Trevor Tennant, your coin depicts a young raccoon alongside its mother on a summer evening in their wetland habitat. As the sunset casts a golden glow upon the water in the background, this raccoon family begins its nocturnal activities. Both raccoons are beautifully rendered with fine detailed engraving that captures their soft expressions and the texture of their fur. A three-quarter profile provides a magnificent view of the young raccoon'sfeatures, while selective colouring brings to life its grey-brown fur and distinctive markings-particularly its dark-coloured eye mask and ringed tail. Theadult raccoon stands to the right of her young, ever attentive to any signs of danger as the kit is poised on a rock along the water's edge, near the green vegetation that provides shelter for some of the aquatic creatures that sustain them in the wild.
Did you know...
Raccoons don't quite hibernate but they do sleep longer during our cold winters; they will eat more tobuild up fat reserves ahead of winter's advance.
Raccoons are excellent swimmers-but only if they haveto! They do, however, have a curious habit of dipping their food at times in water.
They're omnivorous, with a diet that could include berries, nuts, seeds, insects, eggs, birds, mice, fruits and vegetables; but their favourite foods include fish, crayfish, frogs, clams and snails.
On average, a raccoon has a life expectancy of about fiveyears.
Raccoons move along the ground by walking on theentirety of their foot; but they're dextrous, allowing their toes to open shells, trashcans and even open a jar or untie a shoe!
