50 Dollars In the name of George V; In Flanders Fields, Canada

Designed by Canadian artist Tony Bianco, your coin masterfully combines vibrant colour withfinely detailed engraving to create a stirring scene of remembrance at a soldiers grave. There is an unusual stillness in the air as two Canadian soldiers take the time to quietly remember a fallen friend and colleague, who lies buried far from home in a field that is resplendent with the red poppies described in John McCraes poem, In Flanders Fields. With his head bentdown and hat removed, one solemn soldier stands to the left of the stone grave; on the right side of the image, the second soldier kneels before the cross on one leg, his head bent down in quiet reflection. These two soldiers are among the many who will help carry the legacy left behind by the fallen; it is they who will take up our quarrel with the foe and who will carry out the call to action described in the lines to you from failing hands we throw / The torch; be yours to hold it high. In the background, McCraes handwritten first line of his famous poem is inscribed in both English and in French: In Flanders fields the poppies blow and Au champ dhonneur, les coquelicots.

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Tony Bianco

Effigy of King George V facing left, using the same design from 1911

Susan Taylor

Edgar Bertram MacKennal

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