We will continue the series called "Canadian Wildlife".
The Royal Canadian Mint is known by its high quality work and the enormous number of commemorative coins issued each year. Among these commemoratives we find many, individual or in series, under the theme "wildlife".
Canada, with its vast lands and seas, is the home of a varied fauna and that will be showed in this series.
I will try to post land animals, sea animals and birds, in that order.
The nineteenth is a 2013 CAD $5 "Pronghorn Antelope".
This coin is the fifth of a six-coin series of silver bullion coins celebrating Canada's Wildlife (2011-2013).
It weights 31.1g with silver purity of 99.99% and Bullion finish. The mintage was up to 1,000,000 units. The issue price was BV (Bullion Value).
The pronghorn is a unique North American mammal. Its Latin name, Antilocapra americana, means "American goat-antelope," but it is not a member of the goat or the antelope family and it is not related to the antelopes found in Africa. The pronghorn is the only surviving member of the Antilocapridae family and it has been in North America for over a million years.
The pronghorn has a deer-like body. It weighs between 90 and 120 pounds and stands about 3.5 feet tall from shoulder to feet.
The reverse design of 2013 "Antelope" silver bullion coin is the work of the Canadian artist and coin designer Emily S. Damstra.
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