# 80 - 2017 $3 Canada 150

In 2017 Canada commemorated the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. The RCM issued hundreds of coins related to this anniversary.

Among these coins we will show you two $3 coins. Both weight 7.96g with 99.99% silver purity, with Specimen finish.

The first is called "Heart of Our Nation".

Canadian artist Laurie McGaw has created a collage of the places and things that make Canada great. Clockwise from the top: hockey sticks and puck, snowflakes, polar bear, inukshuk, Parliament Hill, Canadian flag, maple syrup, lighthouse, lobster traps, toboggan, Canada goose, canoe, beaver, moose, black spruce tree, Beaver plane, salmon, wheat, cowboy boot, mountains. The elements are roughly placed in an east/west/north/south orientation to reflect their location on a Canadian map. Together, they encircle a maple leaf that is the heart of the design—and the heart of this nation.

The second is called "The Spirit of Canada".

The reverse design by Steven Hepburn presents a cross-country journey that ties together some of Canada’s most iconic images—particularly those that have come to define the Canadian experience, and the landscape itself. The upper portion features that celebrated emblem of Canada’s Pacific coast, the orca whale. The scene transitions to the northern coastline of the Canadian Arctic, which is represented by an inukshuk and a polar bear with cub. Beneath these are the Rocky Mountains. The peaks tower over the vast boreal forest on the left, which stretches across much of Canada, and the agricultural landscape of the Prairie provinces on the right, where a tractor is at work in a hay field. Atlantic Canada is represented by a Nova Scotian/New Brunswick Herring Seiner, which slightly overlaps the image of a raised Canadian flag blowing in the wind. Finally, the nation’s northern climate is represented by the image of two youths playing Canada’s winter sport: hockey.

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