Canada 10 Dollars Silver Coin 2015 Ottawa Senators
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This 2015 $10 fine silver coin is one of seven in a new series from the Royal Canadian Mint that celebrates the Canadian franchises of the National Hockey League (NHL). Hockey's beloved status in Canada makes it "our game."
The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.
The reverse of the coin pays homage to the Ottawa Senators, with their logo tucked neatly to the left side of the coin, while a silhouette of an advancing hockey player speeding across the ice towards the viewer is seen on the right. The colours of the Ottawa Senators are brought to life through the use of advanced "sheer effect" colourization that makes the colours flash fantastically under the light. This coin boasts a reverse-proof finish, with text indicating the face value of "10 DOLLARS", the country "CANADA" and the date "2015" circling the rim.
The coin is struck in a half-ounce of 99.99% fine silver, and boasts an unusually low mintage of only 5,000 pieces. As a pure silver coin struck by the Royal Canadian Mint, this item is GST/HST exempt.
Mintage: 5000
Composition: 99.99% pure silver
Finish: reverse proof
Weight: 15.87 g
Diameter: 34 mm
Edge: serrated
Face value: 10 Canadian Dollars.
Artist: Anderson (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)
Manufacturer: Royal Canadian Mint.
The Ottawa Senators:
The Ottawa Senators are based in Ottawa, Ontario, and play their home games at the 20,500 capacity Canadian Tire Centre. The team is the second NHL franchise to use the Ottawa Senators name. The original Ottawa Senators, founded in 1883, won 11 Stanley Cups and played in the NHL from 1917 until 1934. On December 6, 1990, after a two-year public campaign, the NHL awarded Ottawa a new franchise, which began play in the 1992–93 season. The team has seen success, qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs in fourteen of the past seventeen seasons; their achievements have been reflected in game attendance, averaging one of the highest attendance rates in the league. Fans of the Ottawa Senators are known as Sens Army.
The Ottawa Senators
The Ottawa Senators (or the "Sens", as they are affectionately called by their fans) are the second National Hockey League (NHL) franchise to use the nickname. The original Ottawa Senators, founded in 1883, had a famed history, winning 11 Stanley Cups! This team was a charter member of the NHL in 1917, where it played until 1934. As a result of financial pressures brought on by the Great Depression, the original Senators were relocated for the 1934-35 season to St. Louis, where they played as the St. Louis Eagles (a reference to the noble bird on the Anheuser-Busch logo).
The current Senators were founded and established by Ottawa real estate developer Bruce Firestone. In 1990, after a two year public campaign by Firestone to return the NHL to Ottawa, the NHL awarded a new franchise, which began play in the 1992-93 season. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the NHL. The Senators play their home games at the 20,500-capacity Scotiabank Place (originally named the Palladium, and later the Corel Centre).
On the ice, the club began inauspiciously, finishing last in the league for its first four seasons. Today, the Senators are among the most successful teams in the league in the standings, qualifying for the Stanley Cup playoffs for the past eleven seasons, and in attendance. The club won the Presidents' Trophy in 2003, and the Prince of Wales Trophy in 2007. The team has several all-star players and one of the league's top lines, the "CASH" or "Pizza" line of Daniel Alfredsson, Jason Spezza and Dany Heatley. The pinnacle of their success was during the 2006-07 season, when the Sens reached the Stanley Cup Final, only to be dispatched by the Anaheim Ducks in five games.
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