Canada: 2019 $20 Billy Bishop 1 oz. Pure Silver Coloured Coin

Canada: 2019 $20 Billy Bishop 1 oz. Pure Silver Coloured Coin

Design: Your coin features Billy Bishop standing with his first plane, a Nieuport 17 that he affectionately called “Little Daisy”. In the foreground, a full-colour portrait of the flying ace with “BILLY BISHOP 1894-1956” engraved to the right of his shoulder. Royal Canadian Mint engravers reproduced archival photographs to create this design. The effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt with “20 DOLLARS” and “ELIZABETH II D.G. REGINA” engraved along the outer edge of the coin is featured on your coin’s obverse.

Mintage: 7500

Composition: 99.99% pure silver

Finish: proof

Weight (g): 31.39

Diameter (mm): 38

Edge: serrated

Face value: $20

Artist: Susanna Blunt (obverse)

Packaging: Your coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint-branded maroon clamshell with a black beauty box.