Canada: 2023 $20 Traditional Pysanka Fine Silver Coin

Canada: 2020 $20 Traditional Pysanka Fine Silver Coin

Design: Designed by artist Natalie Kit, your colourful fine silver pysanka features a Trypillian art style inspired by surviving neolithic pottery. Flanked by four parallel lines of life, the centre band features solar symbols and a weaving pattern containing seeds that represent the harvest. Another weaving pattern representing connection and continuity fills the upper and lower bands, where the grain is nurtured by rainfall. Above and below those bands, more lines of life bring strength and frame the powerful eternity line. The ripening grain is contained by vertical lines representing the four seasons, which are guided by time, represented by the spiral forms. The obverse features the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.  The obverse also bears a special marking that includes four pearls symbolizing the four effigies that have graced Canadian coins and the double date of her reign.

Mintage: 7,500

Composition: 99.99% pure silver with colour

Finish: Proof

Weight (g): 31.82

Diameter (mm): 45mm x 33mm

Edge: interrupted serrations

Face value: $20

Artist: Dave Melnychuk

Packaging: Black clamshell with black beauty box