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# 929 - Ships on Coins - Part 17

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I am very fond of ships on coins.

I know that many people share this fondness. I have a few coins depicting ships.

So, I will post a series called "Ships on Coins" and I will show all the coins that I have on this theme.

There will be no order of presentation or country of issue. As the coins are stored in several places, I will simply search on each place and publish those that I found.

The seventeenth is a 2014 $15 "The Arctic Expedition".

This is the third coin in the "Exploring Canada" series, which celebrates the adventurous and courageous spirit of Canada's pioneering explorers.

The coin weights 23.17g with 99.99% silver purity and Proof finish. Its mintage was 3,085 units and the issue price was CAD $54.95.

The story of Canada is forever being written by visionary individuals who have one eye trained on the horizon and are always ready to break a new trail towards the future. In the 16th century, the search for a shorter trading route to Asia lured generations of explorers to the top of the world in search of the Northwest Passage. Their stories of a frozen and forbidding place with ice so powerful that it could crush and sink entire ships inspired awe and fear, and made the Arctic the coveted prize of the bravest explorers for over 400 years.

Expeditions searching for the Northwest Passage did so knowing they could be trapped for years, and that much of their exploring would be done on foot travelling across the sea ice.

The reverse, designed by John Mantha, captures the essence of early Arctic exploration—the perilous phase when a ship becomes trapped and potentially crushed by ice and the crew must unload its supplies and travel by foot. Much of their success was achieved through the assistance of the Arctic's indigenous Inuit who generously shared their knowledge of the land, providing food, clothing and equipment, including sledges and dogs as shown in the foreground of the design.

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