2014 $20 The Royal Ontario Museum, 100th Anniversary - Pure Silver Coin

The Design:

The design features a gold plated image of a bust of Cleopatra VII (one of the museum's very first acquisitions in the early 1900s) against a backdrop of the world-renowned Michael Lee-Chin Crystal addition to the initial building.  The museum, one of the largest in North America, attracts over one million visitors per year, and is noted world-wide for its contributions as a field-research institution, conducting research that spans all corners of the globe. 40 varying galleries and over six million items within their collections contribute to the Royal Ontario Museum's global popularity.  On the front of the coin is the word “CANADA”, the date “2014”, the face value of “20 DOLLARS” and “100 YEARS ANS” are engraved.