Canada Mint Honors the Klondike Gold Rush
2022-07-11 Mon
Canada celebrates the legacy of the Klondike Gold Rush with the 2022 “five nines” gold 200 Dollars coin. This new issue is the second coin in a series commemorating “the last great gold rush” that forever transformed Canada, Yukon and the lives of the Indigenous people who have inhabited the land for millennia.The Klondike Gold Rush was a turning point in Canadian mining history, and the prospecting methods used to find gold after it was first discovered in Yukon’s famed Bonanza creek in 1896 are illustrated on the new coin.
Canadian artist Steve Hepburn designed the reverse of the 2022 Klondike Gold Rush: Prospecting for Gold 200 Dollars coin. The scene features a wooden sluice box in action, filled with “paydirt” from which precious gold flakes and nuggets are being carefully separated.
The Susanna Blunt effigy of Queen Elizabeth II appears on the obverse. The background of both sides features a precisely engraved array of radial lines that have become a defining characteristic of Mint bullion coins.
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