Royal Canadian Mint

The 2022 $5 Canadian Silver Maple Leaf is struck by the Royal Canadian Mint with 99.99% pure silver. The national symbol of Canada, a single maple leaf, adorns the reverse of this beautiful coin. The obverse bears the likeness of Queen Elizabeth II. This coin is often the designated choice for discriminating collectors and investors; not only because of its beauty, but because of the extraordinary purity and high quality strike necessary to meet the standards of The Royal Canadian Mint. Learn More

The 2023 $5 Canadian Silver Maple Leaf is struck by the Royal Canadian Mint with 99.99% pure silver. The national symbol of Canada, a single maple leaf, adorns the reverse of this beautiful coin. The obverse bears the likeness of Queen Elizabeth II and a special Privy Mark 1952-2022, highlighting the Queen's 70 year reign. This coin is often the designated choice for discriminating collectors and investors; not only because of its beauty, but because of the extraordinary purity and high quality strike necessary to meet the standards of The Royal Canadian Mint. Learn More

It’s the most famous prehistoric Ice Age predator, and if you were a young mammoth or mastodon, the last thing you’d want to see is Smilodon fatalis suddenly lunging at you and flashing its oversized fangs! “Smilodon” means “scalpel tooth,” a fitting descriptor for an ancient big cat whose deadly canines measured up to 18 centimetres long. A key top predator, the sabre-toothed cat would have stalked large herbivores—horses, camels, giant ground sloths and more—by hiding and pouncing on them, much like today’s big cats. Despite being synonymous with the Ice Age, you won’t find Smilodon perched atop a glacier—this prehistoric big cat preferred warmer climes. Its fossils are among the most common ones found in the tar pit deposits of California, but its range extended across ice-free areas of North, Central and South America. In 2019, a 35,000-to-40,000-year-old bone became the first verified evidence of Smilodon fatalis’ existence in the prehistoric plains of southern Alberta, before becoming extinct at the end of the Pleistocene epoch, around 11,700 years ago. The obverse features the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt. The obverse also bears a special marking that includes four pearls symbolizing the four effigies that have graced Canadian coins and the double date of her reign. Learn More

This round, part of the Call of the Wild series produced by the Royal Canadian Mint, is made from 1 1/2 ounces of .999 pure silver. The obverse features the Polar Bear and Cub. The reverse features the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II and has a nominal value of $8 CAD. Learn More