This fine silver coin features the sweet smelling lilac shrub in full colour. The flowering shrub featured on the coin's reverse is a uniquely Canadian contribution to lilac cultivars: the Preston lilac, which was named for its creator, Isabella Preston (1881 – 1965), Canada's first female hybridist and one of our most acclaimed ornamental plant breeders. Throughout her 26-year career at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario, Preston introduced almost 200 new hybrids.

All collectable coins have been previously owned. Conditions will vary,

Metal Type: Silver

Purity: 99.99

Mint: RCM

Year: 2017

Mintage: 10,000

Diameter: 36.07 mm

Weight: 23.17g

Special Features: Full colour

Packaging: RCM branded maroon clamshell with black box and certificate

Artists: Jan Poynter (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)