50 Dollars - Elizabeth II Great Lakes, Canada

Designed by artist and Canadian Geographic cartographer, Chris Brackley, your coins reverse features a magnificent custom map of the Great Lakes region, rendered to a scale of 1:22 000 000. All five lakes (Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and Ontario) have a luminous silver appearance thanks to a mirror-like (brilliant) finish, while their names appear as frosted elements. Each colour represents a different land cover: three shades of green to represent different forest types, blue/green represents wetland, pink represents urban space, yellow to represent farmland and lastly red lines indicate roadways. Beneath the word CANADA (right), a compass rose indicates direction, while graticuleslines representing longitude and latitudeare painted on the reverse and laser-engraved on the obverse.

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Chris Brackley

Head of Queen Elizabeth II, as at 77 years of age, bare headed, wearing necklace and earrings, facing right. Grid pattern background.

Susan Taylor

Susanna Blunt

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