A Whimsical Tale: Steam L...

$379.95 CAD
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A Whimsical Tale: Steam Locomotive – 3-oz. Fine Silver Coin

Silver 2025 Mintage 2,500
NEW

A Whimsical Tale: Steam Locomotive – 3-oz. Fine Silver Coin

Silver 2025 Mintage 2,500
$379.95 CAD
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installments of $126.65 CAD.
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Shipping: Expected to be shipped on Oct 16

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Specifications

Product Number 251393
Mintage 2,500
Composition 99.99% pure silver
Weight 94.25 g
Diameter 55 mm
Edge Serrated
Face Value $50
Finish Antique finish
Packaging Black clamshell with black beauty box
Artist David Oram (reverse), Steven Rosati (obverse)

Design & Artist

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David Oram, Artist

“I started my design with a generic 19th-century steam locomotive and added sweeping curves that highlight its elegant form from the pilot/cowcatcher, to the smoke lifters on each side and exhaust pipes added to the side leaving a plume of steam along the tracks. For the fantastical cityscape, I drew inspiration from early Victorian architecture styles, adding decorative triangular rooftops adorned with spires. It was a real challenge to forgo the historical accuracy of my previous work in favour of the imaginative creativity of the steampunk style, but also a joy to let loose my creative artistic side.”

David Oram, Artist

Dr. Mike Perschon, MacEwan University

"Steampunk, as with all speculative fiction, is about possibility. If we can dream of a world where the fantastic can occur, then we realize that our own world can be something other than what it currently is. The steampunk Canada depicted on this coin is not the Canada of history, but a fanciful speculation of a Canada that never was and likely never will be. But it is our ability to dream of alternate histories that can motivate us as Canadians to always seek out alternate futures of a better, brighter Canada."

Dr. Mike Perschon, MacEwan University

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