Canada: 2025 $50 Emanuel Hahn’s Original Sketch: Royal Visit – 5 oz. Pure Silver Coin

Canada: 2025 $50 Emanuel Hahn’s Original Sketch: Royal Visit – 5 oz. Pure Silver Coin

Design: Your coin’s reverse is an engraved representation of artist Emanuel Hahn’s hand-drawn concept for the 1939 Royal Visit medallion. Marked by the paper fold lines of the original pencil sketch residing in the National Currency Collection of the Bank of Canada, the reverse design shows a map of Canada that traces the route followed by King George VI and Queen Elizabeth during their visit in 1939. At the top is a ribbon bearing “A MARI VSQUE AD MARE” (“From Sea to Sea”), Canada’s official motto, while the Arms of Canada shield is flanked by the year “1939”. The reverse re-creates the perspective lines and other preliminary graphic elements drawn by the artist, including the lettering guidelines surrounding “REGEM-ET-REGINAM-CANADA-SALVAT”, an erroneous Latin inscription that was later corrected to “REGEM-ET-REGINAM-CANADA-SALVTAT” (“Canada salutes the King and Queen”). The obverse features the effigy of King George VI by Thomas Humphrey Paget.

Mintage: 1350

Composition: 99.99% pure silver

Weight: 158.5g

Diameter: 110mm

Finish: Antique

Edge: Serrated

Face Value: $50

Artist: Emanuel Hahn (reverse), T. H. Paget (obverse)

Packaging: Black clamshell with black beauty box