Canada: 2025 $125 Murano Monarch Butterfly Pure Silver Coin

Canada: 2025 $125 Murano Monarch Butterfly Pure Silver Coin

Design: A monarch butterfly’s orange-and-black colouration and stained-glass-like wings
never fail to catch the eye as it flits by on the breeze, nature’s own fluttering
work of art. The monarch butterfly on this half-kilo coin is also impossible to
miss: it is the biggest Murano glass butterfly to be featured on a coin from the
Royal Canadian Mint. Authentically sourced from Murano, Italy, where master
glassmakers honour a centuries-old process that produces the colours and
complexity for which Murano glass is renowned, each of these colourful
glassworks is handcrafted – and no two Murano monarchs are alike. It is truly
unique to your selectively gold-plated coin, which, from start to finish, celebrates
art in its many forms – from the original watercolour painting that the design is
based on (as seen on the accompanying art card), to the delicate butterfly that
is sure to inspire.

Mintage: 800

Composition: 99.99% pure silver with selective gold-plating

Finish: Proof

Weight (g): 502.5

Diameter (mm): 85.52

Edge: Serrated

Face value: $125

Artist: Caren Heine (reverse), Steven Rosati (obverse)

Packaging: Dome Capsule, wood base display case with black set up box