Canadian Low Mintage Fine Silver Commemorative Coins

Royal Canadian Mint Fine Silver Commemorative Coins

Low Mintage Varieties

In this Department, we offer a series of fine silver, low mintage commemorative coins from the Royal Canadian Mint.  Many of the coins featured here have special embellishments - including imbedded crystals, full color or color embellished scenes, holograms, and unique high definition engraving.  Unlike faux coins sold by private mints, every coin offered in this Department is a genuine legal tender coin.  The face values vary - their numismatic value is a product of scarcity, high demand from collectors and investors, superb quality in design and minting, and ultra pure silver content.

Ordering information, including price and shipping options, are immediately below.  Scroll down the page to see complete specifications, descriptions, and photos of each coin.

Ordering Information:

We use PayPal for invoicing and payment processing.  The availability of each coin is subject to prior sales until we receive payment confirmation from PayPal and reserve your purchase.  To order, send us an email to okranch1@yahoo.com with your name, delivery address, phone number (optional), email address, the item name and number (provided below) and your choice of shipping methods (fees shown below).  We’ll send you an invoice via PayPal.  Then pay promptly and we will usually ship within one business day after receiving payment confirmation from PayPal.

Item Names -- Item Numbers – Item Price

2012 Maple of Good Fortune –- OK119078Agb -- $128.88
2012 Three Wise Men –- OK120100Agb -- $149.95
2013 Winter Scene -- OK120227Agb -- $92.95
2012 Farewell Penny; Pink Gold Embellishment – OK121186Agb -- $79.95
2012 Praying Mantis -- OK118885Agb--$92.95

Domestic Shipping & Handling

USPS First Class Mail:  Free!
USPS Priority Mail:  $5.00
USPS Express Mail (one business day delivery): $23.95

International Shipping & Handling

Charges vary based on your location.  We ship to nearly 100 countries.  Send us an email at okranch1@yahoo.com for shipping & handling charges to your location.

Specifications & Descriptions

2012 $15 Maple of Good Fortune Fine Silver Hologram Coin

 

Specifications:

Item Number – OK119078Agb
Mintage – 8,888
Composition - fine silver (99.99% pure)
Finish - proof
Weight (g) - 31.39
Diameter (mm) - 38
Edge – serrated (reeded)
Certificate – serialized (serial numbers will vary)
Face value - 15 dollars
Artists - Three Degrees Creative Group (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)

Description:

4th coin in a series! A gift to be admired forever!

This Asian-inspired coin includes numerous images and symbols representing good fortune, including an eye-catching hologram flanked by the Chinese character for "good fortune", two deer, five bats, and eight gold coins. The word for deer in Chinese is "lu" which translates to mean income. “Fu” means good fortune in Chinese. A similar sound of Fu means bat, making bats a symbol of good fortune. Eight Chinese coins is a lucky number combination which represents fatt or "Great Prosperity", explaining why the mintage is 8,888.

Special features:

 • The "Five Blessings" symbol on the coin evokes all of the elements of good fortune: long life, health, virtue, wealth, and peaceful old age.  A multitude of prosperity icons cover this beautiful coin!
 • This coin includes a selective hologram of three maple leaves presented in the celebratory golds, oranges, and crimsons of Chinese New Year festivities.
 • Fine silver (99.99% pure).
 • The total mintage was limited to 8,888 coins worldwide.

Design:

Depicted on the coin are two leaping deer symbolizing the promise of wealth and friendship while the traditional combination of five bats symbolize wealth, health, longevity, virtue and peaceful old age.  Eight figurative gold coins within the design suggest great prosperity while the hologram at the coin’s center shimmers in gold, orange, and crimson, the ultimate expression of good fortune.

Packaging:

Each coin is encapsulated and presented in a maroon clamshell case lined with flock and protected by a maroon sleeve.

2012 $20 Three Wise Men Fine Silver Swarovski Crystal Coin

 

Specifications:

Item Number - OK120100Agb
Mintage – 10,000
Composition - fine silver (99.99% pure)
Finish - proof
Weight (g) - 28.02
Diameter (mm) - 40
Edge – serrated (reeded)
Certificate – serialized (unique serial numbers will vary)
Face value - 20 dollars
Artists - Jason Bouwman (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)

Description:

The inspiration for this charming and delightful coin is the last day of school before the winter holidays begin. No school tomorrow! Let the days of fun, snow, and freedom begin. But before the holidays start, the traditional school play with the three wise men must be performed on stage in front of parents and family. This beautiful fine silver coin, featuring a holiday season theme, will become a treasured heirloom for any family.

Special features:
• This fine silver (99.99% pure) coin captures the spirit of the festive season with a beautiful image of the traditional holiday school play.
• Unique finishing applications with Swarovski crystal element enhances this coin’s design details.
• Total mintage was limited to 10,000 coins worldwide.

Design:
Designed by artist Jason Bouwman, this coin features three costumed children playing the three wise men of Christmas in a school pageant. One child holds in his hand a crystal ball, which is an embedded golden shadow Swarovski crystal element. This coin is embossed with the words “Canada” and “20 dollars” and the year “2012.”

Packaging:
Each coin is encapsulated and presented in a maroon clamshell case lined with flock and protected by a black sleeve.

 

2013 $10 Winter Scene Fine Silver Colored Coin

 

Specifications:

Item Number - OK120227Agb
Mintage – 8,000
Composition - fine silver (99.99% pure)
Finish - proof
Weight (g) - 15.87
Diameter (mm) - 34
Edge - serrated
Certificate – serialized (unique serial numbers will vary)
Face value - 10 dollars
Artists - Rémi Clark (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)

Description:

A beautiful fine silver coin celebrating the joys of winter!

Skating outdoors on a frozen pond is one of the most enjoyable and affordable pastimes of the Canadian winter. This coin celebrates the magic surrounding a bright winter’s day spent gliding across a frozen pond with family and friends.  The perfect gift for someone who enjoys spending winters outside (or longs to do so)!

Special features:

 • A beautiful coin making exquisite use of color and engraving to evoke memories of winter fun!
 • Coin design by well-known Quebec artist, Rémi Clark.
 • This coin is fine silver (99.99% pure).
 • Mintage was limited to just 8,000 coins worldwide.

Design:

This coin was designed by Rémi Clark, and features a colorful painted winter scene of families skating on a frozen pond surrounded by evergreens, with snow covered houses dotting the rolling countryside in the distance. It is embossed with the words “Canada” and “10 dollars” and the year “2013.”

Packaging:

Each coin is encapsulated and presented in a maroon clamshell case lined with flock and protected by a black sleeve.

2012 1/2 oz. Fine Silver - Farewell to the Penny – Selective Pink Gold Plating

 

The year 2012 marked the end of the line for the beloved 1-cent coin from the Royal Canadian Mint.  To mark this historic occasion, several superb ‘tribute’ coins were minted.  We believe that this half-ounce fine silver 1-cent coin is the best of the best.  It was no surprise when the entire mintage of this coin sold-out soon after its introduction.

Specifications:

Item Number - OK121186Agb

Mintage – 30,000

Composition - fine silver (99.99% pure)

Embellishment – selective pink gold plating

Finish - proof

Weight (g) - 15.87

Diameter (mm) - 34

Edge- serrated (reeded)

Certificate – serialized (unique serial numbers will vary)

Face value - 1 cent

Artists - G.E. Kruger-Gray (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)

History:

On January 2, 1908—the day that the Ottawa branch of the Royal Mint was itself freshly minted—Countess Alice Grey, wife of Canada’s ninth Governor-General, Albert Henry George Grey, stepped forward and struck Canada’s first domestically produced coin: a 1-cent coin. By 2012, more than 35 billion more had been produced.  However, rising costs of production and metals made the minting of pennies a losing proposition.

Though the humble penny will one day disappear, its unique role in the history of Canadian coinage remains timeless.  Celebrate the history of the penny with your beautiful fine silver coin that features selective pink gold plating. This coin is a perfect tribute with which to always remember the penny.

Description:

Selective pink gold plating on a fine silver proof coin creates a spectacular appearance!

Special features:
 • A great addition to any 1/2 ounce silver coin collection.

 • Celebrates the penny’s 75th anniversary of the Maple Leaves design.

 • A fine silver (99.99% pure) 1 cent coin with stunning selective pink gold plating.

 • Mintage was limited to only 30,000 coins worldwide.  

Design:

This tribute coin features G.E. Kruger-Gray’s iconic 1937 design, which was used as the Canadian 1-cent piece reverse image from 1937 to 2012 (with the sole exception of 1967). The image features two upright five-lobed maple leaves, the larger one on the right slightly overlapping the smaller leaf on the left. Both are attached by their stems to a small twig. The date of the penny’s last production, “2012,” is engraved just below and to the left of the central image. The word “CANADA” is engraved across the central bottom portion of the reverse field. Opposite this word, across the center top portion of the coin, is the face value of “1 CENT.” The reverse and obverse sides are framed with a beaded circle.

Packaging:

• Each coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint-branded maroon clamshell case lined with flock.

• Each coin case is protected by a customized “beauty box”.

• Each coin is accompanied by a serialized certificate of authenticity, providing proof of ownership for this coin and evidence that it coin has been individually inspected by the Mint’s resident quality assurance specialists

 

2012 - Fine Silver - Praying Mantis - Mintage: 7,500

 

Makes an ideal gift – especially for wildlife lovers and photography enthusiasts!

Specifications:

Item Number – OK118885Agb

Mintage – 7,500

Composition - 99.99% pure silver

Finish - proof

Weight (g) - 15.87

Diameter (mm) - 34

Edge – serrated (reeded)

Certificate – serialized (unique serial number will vary)

Face value - 10 dollars

Artists - Robert Ganz (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse) 

 

Description:

This coin uses Robert Ganz’s winning image in the 2011 Canadian Geographic Magazine Photo Contest as inspiration for its design. The photographer’s talent and perfect timing came together as he captured a praying mantis delicately perched on a grass seed head.

Special features:

 • The stunning contrast between the relief of the praying mantis and polished mirror-like background of the coin makes this coin an outstanding example of the high art of proof strikes.

• Fine silver (99.99% pure).

• Mintage was strictly limited to 7,500 coins worldwide.  

Design:

Royal Canadian Mint engravers used the image from the 2011 Canadian Geographic Wildlife Photograph of the year, taken by Robert Ganz of Montreal, Quebec, as inspiration in the design of this unique fine silver coin.  

Packaging:

Each coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint branded, flock lined, black clamshell case.  The case is protected by a rare full color customized sleeve that displays the winning photograph.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR OUR TEXAS CUSTOMERS

Sales tax is due on the sale in Texas of gold, silver, or numismatic coins or gold, silver, or platinum bullion unless sold to a purchaser in a single transaction in which the total sales price of all the items sold is $1,000 or more. No sales tax will be collected on sales to Texas residents when the aggregate of gold, silver, platinum bullion coins and numismatic coins purchased in the same transaction is $1,000 or more. When making a purchase that meets these requirements for no sales tax, please do be sure that your invoice shows no sales tax due before you make payment. Please contact us directly if you do not receive a correct invoice shortly after your purchase.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL CUSTOMERS
As a service to our international customers, depending on the services available from the United States Postal Service (USPS) for mail to your address, we will include United States Postal Service or other insurance or registered mail service wherever available on all shipments to international destinations.

We appreciate our international customers and we want your purchases to be delivered as quickly as possible. Your telephone number may be required on the Customs Form. Please include it when you make your purchase to avoid delays in receiving your coin(s).

Many countries welcome and encourage international trade. (WHEN BUYING COINS: Sales, purchases, exports, and imports among and between coin sellers and coin collectors are specifically exempt from import restrictions and fees in many nations, states and provinces - BE SURE YOU KNOW THE RULES WHERE YOU LIVE.) However, international customers are responsible for knowledge of and compliance with all applicable laws and regulations imposed by their governments. They are also responsible for payment of any and all costs associated with importing their purchases from OK Ranch Land and Cattle Company, including but not limited to expenses for customs, taxes, import fees, postal fees, etc.

SAVE ON SHIPPING CHARGES WHEN BUYING TWO OR MORE ITEMS AT THE SAME TIME – We will combine shipping whenever practical to save you money!