2021 $30 Two Ounce Pure Silver Coin Imposing Icons: White-Tailed Deer

This is the third coin in the Imposing Icons series, and invites you to look deep into the eyes of the white-tailed deer. This large two-ounce fine silver $30 coin features a selectively coloured, close-up view of a white-tailed deer. The finely engraved backdrop showcases the forest, one of the deer's many habitats in Canada. In Canada, the white-tailed deer is the most common and widely distributed large mammal. If you spot one, it is likely grazing in woodland edges and pastures. However, the deer startles easily; at the first sign of trouble, it raises the alarm by flagging its brown tail to reveal a white underside (hence its name) as it gallops out of sight.

• Mintage: 2,500
• Diameter: 50 mm
• Weight: 2 oz pure silver
• GST/HST exempt

Did you know?
• The white-tailed deer is a fast runner—it can dash off at speeds of up to 58 km/h!
• The deer's diet changes with the seasons: it eats plants and berries in the spring/summer, acorns and leftover grains in the fall, and grasses or sedges in the winter
• If you spot a bedded fawn and there's no sight of its mother, it's not necessarily a sign of trouble; the doe is known to conceal her fawn and leave it unattended for long hours while she feeds

Includes:
• 2021 $30 White-Tailed Deer Pure Silver Coin