Canada 10 Dollars Silver Coin 2015 Vancouver Canucks
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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 Vancouver Canucks, 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 Vancouver Canucks 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 Vancouver Canucks:
The Vancouver Canucks are based in Vancouver, British Columbia. In its NHL history, the team has advanced to the Stanley Cup Finals three times. The Vancouver Canucks' mascot is an orca whale named Fin Orca or Fin the Whale. He is often seen banging a First Nations drum, or skating around during intermissions firing t-shirts out of a compressed air cannon. On occasion, "smoke" also comes out of the blowhole on his head. Fin has his trademarked chomping where he bites the heads of fans. Notable Hockey Hall of Famers that once played on the Vancouver Canucks are Mats Sundin, Mark Messier and Pavel Bure.
Vancouver Canucks
The Canucks, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, joined the National Hockey League (NHL) in 1970 as an expansion team along with the Buffalo Sabres. In its 38-year NHL history, the team has advanced twice to the Stanley Cup Finals, but was defeated both times by New York teams: the Islanders in 1982 and the Rangers in 1994. They are members of the Northwest Division of the Western Conference of the NHL. They play their home games at the 18,630-seat General Motors Place.
The Canucks started the tradition of "Towel Power." During the 1982 Stanley Cup Playoffs, the Canucks were playing the Chicago Blackhawks when Vancouver coach Roger Neilson, fed up with what he felt was the lousy performance of the officials in the game, placed a white towel on the end of a hockey stick and held it up in a gesture mocking surrender (waving the white flag). The players on the Canucks' bench followed suit, and although Vancouver lost the game, the team's fans appeared at the arena for the next game cheering their team on by waving white towels above their heads. This practice (or variants thereof) has spread to the fan bases of other teams in the league, and even teams in other sports.
The original Vancouver Canucks Logo Vancouver had previously had a major professional team, the Vancouver Millionaires (later renamed the Maroons), from 1911 to 1926. In 1915 the Millionaires won the Stanley Cup for the first and only time, in the very first year in which the cup was awarded to the victor of the playoffs between the champions of the National Hockey Association and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association. A number of Hall of Famers have played for the Canucks for brief periods of time, including Mark Messier, Igor Larionov and Tony Esposito.
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