2024 $50 Year of the Dragon, Extreme High Relief, Silver PR

The Royal Canadian Mint has once again raised the bar in the world of extreme relief by launching its first-ever coins dramatically defining a design in Extraordinarily High Relief (EHR) on both their obverse and reverse. The 2024 $350 Pure Gold Coin and $50 Fine Silver Coin – Year of the Dragon are the latest innovations to come from the Mint’s Research and Development team, which has enhanced the relief of artist Simon Ng’s dragon design to an impressive height of 4.7 mm on the reverse, and created a rear view of the same dragon in a similarly enhanced obverse relief. These ground-breaking “double EHR” works of art are available as of February 6, 2024.

Obverse Description

Above the obverse engraving appears the effigy of Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt, accompanied by a special device of four pearls symbolizing her four different effigies to have graced Canadian coins, as well as the double date of her reign.

Reverse Description

The reverse design by artist Simon Ng celebrates the Year of the Wood Dragon through an elaborate EHR engraving of a dragon, the fifth sign in the Chinese Zodiac. Framed by a laser-engraved pattern that represents the wood element, the dragon is shown moving among the clouds of a night sky illuminated by the moon, its tail coiled to form the shape of lucky number 8. A rear view of that same scene is rendered in EHR on the obverse.

Source: Royal Canadian Mint