2017 Canada $25 Fine Silver Piedfort – Timeless Icons: The Beaver and the Maple Leaf (Gilded)

A first in Royal Canadian Mint history: a selectively gold-plated fine silver piedfort. Struck for Canada's 150th year on a thick piedfort planchet — double the depth of a standard coin — Pierre Leduc's Timeless Icons design bridges 1867 and 2017, its beaver and maple leaf passing from classical engraving into contemporary style across the face of the coin. The icons, rim and portrait glow in selective gold plating against 99.99% pure silver proof fields.

Collector Specifications

• Country: Canada
• Year: 2017
• Denomination: $25
• Composition: 99.99% Pure Silver with selective gold plating
• Weight: 31.39 g (1 troy oz, piedfort thickness)
• Diameter: 34 mm
• Finish: Proof
• Edge: Serrated
• Certificate: Serialized RCM COA
• Condition: Sealed in original RCM packaging as received — coin photographs to be added; box and case shown
• Mintage: 7,000
• Designer: Pierre Leduc (reverse); Susanna Blunt (obverse)

Historical Significance

The piedfort — a coin struck at double thickness — traces its lineage to medieval France, where kings commissioned these hefty pieces as presentation treasures. The Mint revived the form for Canada's sesquicentennial and, for the first time anywhere in its history, dressed one in gold plating. With just 7,000 struck, it stands among the scarcer issues of the Canada 150 program.