# 1499 - Canadian Wildlife - Part 62

Today we will continue the series called "Canadian Wildlife".

The Royal Canadian Mint is known by its high quality work and the enormous number of commemorative coins issued each year. Among these commemoratives we find many, individual or in series, under the theme "wildlife".

Canada, with its vast lands and seas, is the home of a varied fauna and that will be showed in this series.

I will try to post land animals, sea animals and birds, in that order.

The sixty second coin is a 2012 CAD $5 "Moose".

This coin weights 31.1g (1oz) with 99.99% silver purity and Bullion finish. Its mintage was 1,000,000 units and the issue price was BV (Bullion Value). It is the third coin in the Bullion Canadian Wildlife series.

The moose (Alces alces) is the largest member of the deer family Cervidae. Moose are impressive because of their towering size (almost 2m), black color, long legs, pendulous muzzle, and the immense, wide, flat antlers of old bulls.

Designed and engraved by William Woodruff, the reverse features a moose.

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