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2 Dollars Daphne Odjig
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
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| Year | 2025 |
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| Currency | Dollar (1858-date) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse description | The gold-colored center features a cropped detail of a female figure holding a drum, derived from Daphne Odjig's celebrated 1978 masterpiece 'The Indian in Transition,' which is held in the collection of the Canadian Museum of History. The nickel-steel outer ring bears an engraved reproduction of a fisher — an animal whose name is the anglicized form of 'Odjig' — as it appears above the artist's signature on the original painting, rendered in fine line engraving around the full circumference. The legends 'DAPHNE ODJIG' and 'CANADA' appear in the outer ring, with the denomination '2 DOLLARS' also inscribed thereon. |
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Daphne Odjig (1919–2016) was an Odawa-Potawatomi artist from Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island whose work helped establish the Professional Native Indian Artists Incorporation — known informally as the "Indian Group of Seven" — in 1973. This toonie is one in a continuing Royal Canadian Mint series honoring Canadians on circulating coinage, a program that has occasionally drawn criticism for displacing the standard effigy reverse without a corresponding change to the obverse attribution.