2013 $10 O CANADA: THE POLAR BEAR - PURE SILVER COIN
 
The First coin of the series depict the Inukshuk
The Second coin of the series depict the Beaver
The third coin of the seriesdepict the Royal Canadian Mounted Police
The fourth coin of the serie depict the Polar Bear
The fifth coin of the series depict the Canadian Summer Fun
The sixth coin of the series depict the Wolf
The seventh coin of the series depict the Niagara Falls
The eighth coin of the series depict the Caribou
The nineth coin of the series depict the Hockey
The tenth coin of the series depict the Orca
The eleventh coin ofseries depict the Maple Leaf
The twelfth coin of the series depict the Canadian Holiday Season
 
The fourth coin in the Royal Canadian Mint’s exciting new O Canada series focusing on iconic Canadian images, celebrates a symbol of the power and vastness of Canada’s northern landscape, the Polar Bear. In a nation dominated by weather extremes, the Polar Bear’s ability to survive and thrive in the harshest climate reflects Canadians’ stalwart pragmatism and spirit of adventure.

The reverse design by Canadian artist Pierre Leduc presents an outer border framing an inner field engraved with the image of a polar bear standing on an ice floe. Viewed in profile from its right side, the bear’s unique features, including its small ears, elongated neck, enormous mass, and light-toned fur are realistically rendered. The image centres on the polar bear, but its Arctic environment is clearly evident in the jagged floating ice upon which the bear stands and the frozen, wind-blown sea, dotted with icebergs, that stretches toward the horizon behind the bear.