Composition : 99,99% argent
Mintage : 7,500

Toronto

Cartography, like fine coin minting, represents a delicate balance between science, art, and technique. Since the time of the first maps, technological evolution have changed the way we see and representphysical geography. What started as primitive dye-on-parchment sketching of areas became drawings  of increasing  accuracy and precision by using a compass, sextant, and telescope. Today, computers, satellites, and technologies like Global Positioning Systems and the Internet enable us to instantly see, search, and steer ourselves to ourdestination.

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With more than two million people (five million in the Greater Toronto Area), Toronto is Canada's largest city. It's also the fifth most populous city and seventh largest urbanregion in North America, a key financial center, and one of the most multicultural cities on the planet: more than 150 languages and dialects are spoken there and over half of its residents were born outside of Canada. Above this city of lofty buildings, second only to New York City for its number of high-rises, soars the 553.33-metre CN Tower, North America's tallest freestanding structure and officially one of theSeven Wonders of the Modern World. it attracts more than two million visitors each year and is an icon of Toronto's skyline.

TORONTO CITY MAP - 2011 CANADIAN COINS is categorised COINS AND PAPER MONEY / 08- ROYAL CANADIAN MINT / 13- CANADIAN HISTORY and sold by l'Imaginaire, a store and specialised website.