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BUTTERFLIES OF CANADA  -  2006 CANADIAN COINS  # 06  -  SILVERY BLUE

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Description

Composition : 92.5% silver, 7.5% copper
Mintage : 16, 000

Artistry inflight

The bright and colorful wing patterns of butterflies are a marvel. And every summer, people around the world are witness to a fluttering art show asthese natural works of art take flight. Antartica is the only continent without butterflies.

Of the 24,000 species in the world, Canada in home to 297 of them, including the Silvery Blue (Galucopsyche lygdamus). There are about adozen subspecies of Silvery Blue but only one of them is found in Canada - subspecies couperi. It occurs in every province and territory as far north to Tuktoyaktuk (Northwest Territories) but is rarely seen in southwestern Ontario. A single generation of Silvery Blue flies each season; from early May to early July in the south and from mid-June to mid-August in Newfoundland and the north.

Two coins were released each year in this series from 2004 to 2006: one coloured, and one with an hologram.
These are the 6 coins which are part of the serie:

Colored coins:
- the Clouded Sulphur, released in 2004
- the Monarch, released in 2005;
- the Short-tailled Swallowtail, released in 2006.

Coin with an hologram:
- the TigerSwallowtail, released in 20
- the Great Spangled Fritillary, released in 2005;
- the Silvery Blue, released in 2006.

BUTTERFLIES OF CANADA - SILVERY BLUE - 2006 CANADIAN COINS 06 is categorised COINS AND PAPER MONEY / 08- ROYAL CANADIAN MINT / 10- FLORA, FAUNA & NATURE and sold by l'Imaginaire, a store and specialised website.

Face value : 50 CENTS

Manufacturer : MONNAIE ROYALE CANADIENNE

Component : STERLING SILVER

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