Description

When fall paints Canada’s landscapes, its colours are anything but flat—it imbues even the silhouette of a single maple leaf with a spectrum of vivid hues. That wondrous range is captured on the 2026 Ultra-High Relief (UHR) Silver Maple Leaf (SML) coin, where Walter Ott’s classic maple leaf has been rendered in Ultra-High Relief, polished to a high shine, and finished with the innovative new Vivid Toning Effect—a Mint first that produces intense colours with a foil-like finish. The technology catches the light to reveal realistic flashes of yellow, orange and red that shimmer across the leaf’s surface, echoing the way sunlight filters through a Canadian forest canopy on a bright autumn day. The luminous effect is further amplified by a new maple-themed field pattern that is bursting with rays of light, reflecting endless pride in Canada’s autumnal elegance.