Composition : 99.99% silver
Mintage : 8 500

The Wind-Racers

The Wind-RacersWe race with the wind; the sagebrush parts before our fleeing gale. Together, a flying puzzle of shifting red-brown and white stripes, we daze our pursuer, exhaust her - a hungry bobcat at winter's end - until her legs fail her and her panting, emptybelly finally lowers to the ground. We race with the wind and no one can catch us here in the flat, open grasslands we have inhabited forever. There are no others like us on Earth.

We saw her first, high in the foothills; our eyes miss very little. Were it summer, we would have quietly gathered our young, hidden among the higher grasses lining the vast valley. But it is winter's end and the young will not be here before the full moon rises four more times. A flash of white rumpon a rise in the distance passes through our multitude like a shiver - one white flash, then another - and then we are flying. When we launch from our grazing-ground, even the birds are hard-pressed to follow.Above us, the cat leaps and snatches, catching nothing but dust. She follows, but knows that we can fly for hours.

When the bobcat lies still, we slow. Eventually, we stop, moving further along our broad, flat valley, digging for fresh green shoots in the hard-packed snow with our new horns, which drop with autumn's leaves andreturn with the sun in spring. Soon we will rest, but not for long. Our large eyes are ever watchful, seeing the slightest shift in the landscape, seeking the white flash that will transform us, once again, into wind-racers.

This coin is the second issue of the Untamed Canada collection.
The first coin of the series, released in february 2013, depictsthe Arctic Fox.
The second coin ofr the series, released in september 2013, depicts the Pronghom.
The third coin of the series, released in march 2014, depicts the Wolverine.

This series is also available in pure gold with 25-dollar face value coins.
 

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