1 Dollar - Charles III Peace Dollar; gilded

The Royal Canadian Mint's Peace Dollar series draws on the iconography of the original 1921 American Peace Dollar, itself a post-WWI commission that the Canadian mint has periodically reinterpreted for its own collector market. Charles III's accession in September 2022 — following the death of Elizabeth II — triggered a systematic replacement cycle across all Commonwealth coinage effigies, and this 2026 issue falls within that transitional window when RCM collector strikes were still being reconfigured around the new royal portrait. The selective gilding is applied after striking, a finishing technique the RCM has refined across numerous issues since the 1990s.