2013 Canada 25-cent Flower & Fauna Purple Coneflower & Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly

2013 Canada 25-cent Flower & Fauna Purple Coneflower & Eastern Tailed Blue Butterfly

Third coin of a series featuring insects on beautifully engraved and painted flowers.

The purple cornflower is a favourite among Canadian gardeners not only for its easy maintenance, but its ability to attract gorgeous butterflies like the eastern tailed blue. This tiny butterfly, one of Canada’s smallest and loveliest, can be found across southeastern Canada from New Brunswick to southeastern Saskatchewan. This coin is a fantastic collector’s item as well as a unique and beautiful gift to commemorate a birthday, a holiday, a graduation, the coming of spring or any other occasion.

Canadian artist Maurice Gervais presents a stunning engraved and painted purple coneflower bloom. The flower features a red-orange tubiflora centre and bright purple petals sitting atop a realistic green stem with two smooth leaves. Perched atop the flower’s lower-right petals is an Eastern Tailed Blue, its dark purple-blue wings outlined in black and white, with orange dots at the base of each hind wing. The reverse also features the word “CANADA,” the date “2013” and the face value of “25 CENTS.”

Specifications:
Item number: 121913
Face Value: 25 cents
Mintage: 17,500 
Composition: Cupronickel
Diameter (mm): 35
Edge: Plain
Finish: Specimen with colour
Artists: Maurice Gervais (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse) 

Special Features:
- A fantastic collector's item as well as a beautiful gift to commemorate many occasions such as the coming of spring, or a nature lover's birthday.
- Coin three in a series featuring coloured flowers and their 'friends'. 
- This low-mintage coin comes in the Royal Canadian Mint's attractive branded clamshell case.
- A great collectible for nature lovers, wildflower enthusiasts, conservationists, and more.

Packaging:
Coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint branded maroon clamshell case lined with black flock and protected by a black sleeve.