This is the perfect gift for that hard to please beaver-lover on your Christmas list. Just in time.
Canadian 2015 $50 Beaver Silver Coin for $50
Canadian artist Emily Damstra designed the image found on the reverse of the 2015 $50 Beaver Silver Coin. It depicts a beaver in its natural habitat. The creature is seen swimming in a body of water with a tree-filled shoreline behind. In the background, a wolf is also depicted gazing over the scene.
Reverse inscriptions include CANADA, 50 DOLLARS and 2015 along with the artist’s initials of ED. Susanna Blunt’s effigy of Queen Elizabeth II graces the obverse.
This is a beautiful design. If you look closely there’s a wolf in the background. I think for the amount of promotion I’ve done for this coin in the last 24 hours among the beaver-lovers of the world I deserve just one for free. Don’t you? When I talked our artist into doing a festival poster that was half above half under the water I could find no other examples of the idea on the entire internet. It had never been done. And now this! Do you think there’s a coincidence at work here? I already wrote the artist to suggest she might want to donate a sketch or two to the silent auction, and then I wrote our artist who likes it so much she wants to get one as a present for her Canadian uncle!
Order yours now, but mind you there’s a limit of three per household!
Is this the single best headline ever? I think it may very well be. From Leistershire England,
Beaver colony visits Mayor in Council Chamber
THE first Mountsorrel Beaver colony paid a visit to see the Mayor of Charnwood, Coun Paul Day.
They got to sit in the Council Chamber and learn all about the Mayor and what he does. The mayor also presented six of the Beavers with their Chief Scout Bronze Award, the highest award a Beaver can achieve.
A spokesperson for the Beavers said: “Congratulations to the six Beavers and thank you to the Mayor of Charnwood.”
Oh pooh. They mean boy scouts. Who wants to read about them? This was such a fun idea it needed a graphic.
Don’t you think he’ll keep this forever and ever? Big storm coming tonight for us and the beavers. They’ll likely lose their dam, but they’ll rebuild. I thought the website needed snow flakes to mark the occasion. Stay safe and dry.
