Description

KEY FEATURES

  • The Mint’s first coin honouring Billy Bishop, Canada’s famous flying ace of the First World War.
  • True Canadian wartime memorabilia! This coin features archival photographs that have been meticulously reproduced as intricate engravings and a beautiful colour portrait an innovative combination of two technologies.
  • Coin features the plane that Billy Bishop flew on his historic solo raid of June 2, 1917 (a Nieuport 17 that he affectionately called Little Daisy).