20 dollars — Canada (1990) — Lancaster 683 AVRO

Special facts

The Lancaster bomber on the 20 dollars of 1990, the first coin of the 1990s aviation series: silver with a gold-plated cameo portrait of a person linked to the aircraft. Lancasters were also built in Canada, at Malton near Toronto.

About the period

The coins of Elizabeth II were struck from 1953 to 2022, almost seventy years in which four portraits of the queen succeeded one another: by Mary Gillick (1953–1964), Arnold Machin (1965–1989), Dora de Pédery-Hunt (1990–2003), the first portrait by a Canadian sculptor, and Susanna Blunt (from 2003). More about the period “Elizabeth II”, 1952 — 2022

Other coins of the period

• 1988–1989
• 10 dollars (1988–1989) — Platinum Maple Leaf KM# 165
  2nd portrait
• 20 dollars (1988–1989) — Platinum Maple Leaf KM# 166
  2nd portrait
• 50 dollars (1988–1989) — Platinum Maple Leaf KM# 167
  1 oz. Platinum Bullion Coinage; 2nd portrait
• 1988
• 100 dollars (1988) — Bowhead Whale KM# 162
• 1989
• 1 dollar (1989) — Bicentennial: MacKenzie River KM# 168
• 100 dollars (1989) — Saint-Marie Among the Hurons KM# 169
• 1990
• 1 dollar (1990) — 300th Anniversary of the Ventures of Henry Kelsey KM# 170
• 1990–2003
• 5 dollars (1990–2003) — Silver Maple Leaf KM# 187
  Privy mark; 3rd portrait
• 5 dollars (1990–2003) — Gold Maple Leaf KM# 188
  1/10 oz. Gold Bullion Coinage; 3rd portrait
• 1990–1999
• 5 dollars (1990–1999) — Platinum Maple Leaf KM# 192
  1⁄10 oz Platinum Bullion Coinage
• 1990–2003
• 10 dollars (1990–2003) — Gold Maple Leaf KM# 189
  3rd portrait
• 1990–1999
• 10 dollars (1990–1999) — Platinum Maple Leaf KM# 193
  1⁄4 oz Platinum Bullion Coinage
• 1990
• 20 dollars (1990) — Lancaster 683 AVRO KM# 172
• 20 dollars (1990) — Avro Anson KM# 173
• 1990–2003
• 20 dollars (1990–2003) — Gold Maple Leaf KM# 190
  3rd portrait
• 1990–1999
• 20 dollars (1990–1999) — Platinum Maple Leaf KM# 194
• 1990
• 30 dollars (1990) — Polar bear KM# 174
• 1990–2003
• 50 dollars (1990–2003) — Gold Maple Leaf KM# 191
  3rd portrait
• 1990–1999
• 50 dollars (1990–1999) — Platinum Maple Leaf KM# 195
  1 oz. platinum bullion coinage; 3rd portrait
• 1990
• 75 dollars (1990) — Polar bear KM# 175
• 100 dollars (1990) — United Nations Literacy Year KM# 171
• 150 dollars (1990) — Polar bear KM# 176
• 200 dollars (1990) — Silver Jubilee of the Canadian Flag KM# 178
• 300 dollars (1990) — Polar bear KM# 177
• 1991
• 1 dollar (1991) — 175th Anniversary of the S.S. Frontenac KM# 179