- Country:Canada
- Collection:Silver Commemorative $3
- Metal:Silver
- Year:2019
- Denomination:$3
- Finish:Complete
- Weight (oz):0.256
- Purity:0.9999
- Mintage:4000
- Product type:Coin
March brings the promise of spring and the start of the sweetest time of year: maple syrup season. The third coin in the Celebrating Canadian Fun and Festivities series samples the sugar bush experience in eastern and central Canada, where visitors enjoy sweet treats and learn about a syrup-making process that originated with the Indigenous peoples of Canada.
Experience the sugar bush in early spring with this beautiful coin! Order today!
Special Features:
FEATURES A MIX OF ENGRAVING AND COLOUR! The central image on your coin stands out thanks to the use of vibrant colours.
STYLIZED ICONS FRAME THE REVERSE! A stylized icon represents each month's theme on your coins. Together, these engraved symbols form a frame that is the common designfeature on all 12 coins in this series.
INCLUDES SERIALIZED CERTIFICATE! The Royal Canadian Mint certifies all of its collector coins.
99.99% PURE SILVER COIN! NO GST/HST!
Design:
Designed by Steve Hepburn, your coin features a colourful depiction of a young family enjoying a sugar bush experience in early spring. Tin buckets collect the sap from the tapped maple trees in the foreground. A winding path leads back to the sugar shack, where syrup ismade in a more traditional way, by boiling the sap in a large kettle hanging over a roaring fire. The image is framed by stylized icons that represent popular outdoor activities and sights in Canada: (clockwise from top) Niagara Falls; a Christmas tree; a rodeo; wine tasting; dogsledding; folk music; cherry blossoms; maple syrup tasting; whale watching; tulips;coastal drives; and the aurora borealis. The obverse features the year "2019" and face value "3 DOLLARS", and the framed effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.
Did you knowÃ
Most Acer trees will do.
While the sugar maple (Acer saccharum) is the top choice for producing high-quality maplesyrup, you can make sweet syrup from the sap of other maple trees-even a birch tree. Keep in mind that it takes about 40 litres of maple sap to make one litre of maple syrup.
Canada's Maple Belt stretches from Manitoba to Nova Scotia.
The top maple syrup producer: the province of Quebec, which produces the bulk of this nation's total supply.
