1 oz 2025 Pysanka Egg Shaped Colourized Silver Coin | Royal Canadian Mint

Welcome the season of renewal with this colourful pysanka.

As winter ebbs, the sun returns to user in a season of renewal—it’s the eternal cycle of life, as represented on this 99.99% pure silver pysanka coin. The coin’s reverse is an intricate, original work of art that draws its inspiration from the cosmos, colourfully combining ancient Ukrainian motifs for love and passion, fire and light, to form a contemporary representation of the universe in all its strength, balance and benevolence for all mankind.

A bestseller every year since 2016!

COIN HIGHLIGHTS

• The tradition continues. RCM's annual celebration of a cherished Ukrainian cultural tradition continues in 2025. Each egg-shaped pysanka coin is a precious metal showcase of an artform with layers of meaning, and a celebration of a centuries-old art form.
• Colour meets silver. The pysanka design also incorporates glimpses of the coin’s naturally luminous silver surface, weaving sparkling precious metal with vivid colours.
• Third collaboration. This is the third pysanka coin designed by Natalie Kit, the artist behind our 2020 pure gold pysanka and 2023 fine silver pysanka coins.
• Past coins sold out. A bestseller every year since 2016, and all previous pysanka coins sold out quickly, so don’t wait!
• Includes serialized certificate. The Royal Canadian Mint certifies all of its collector coins.

PACKAGING

Your coin is encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint-branded clamshell with a black beauty box

COMPLEX DESIGN

Crafted in 1 oz. of 99.99% fine silver, this 2025 fine silver pysanka features one of the most challenging pysanky designs so far, with intricate patterns and multiple colours that all carry symbolic weight

A COSMOS-THEMED DESIGN

Your pysanka coin’s colourful reverse features several traditional Ukrainian cosmomorphic motifs—ancient symbols for the sun, the stars, and what they represent.

DID YOU KNOW?

Many of the traditional symbols found on pysanky (the plural form of “pysanka”), and throughout Ukrainian decorative folk art, date back centuries and even to prehistoric times. Some of the most ancient motifs are geometric ones, like the triangles featured on this pysanka coin.

Designed by Canadian artist Natalie Kit, your pysanka coin’s reverse is a contemporary representation of the universe through cosmic symbols that embody endurance, protection and guardianship of life.

Beneath the band containing the words “CANADA 2025”, the Ukrainian rose that traditionally serves as an expression of love and devotion also symbolizes the sun—the powerful giver of life and light, and the centre of all knowledge—and welcomes its return in the spring, when the cycle of life is renewed. The field in the centre portion contains dots that send down light from the heavens, as well as several eight-pronged stars, their fixed points signifying eternity, while the unbroken lines that run along the rim represent the continuous thread of life. The eight-point star motif in the centre symbolizes strength, life and fire, while the angled squares containing star variations create a different viewing experience from different angles.

Repeating throughout the design, the cross shapes symbolize life itself while the triangles represent the life-giving properties of the trinity of air, fire and water. Indented lines in a saw shape recall the life-giving properties of the sun, curled lines represent protection, and ladder lines represent both the stairway to the heavens and the ability to separate good from evil. The colours used throughout the design also carry symbolic weight: red, signifying action and joy; orange, the colour of passion and the everlasting sun; yellow, which signifies light and purity; and blue, the airy colour of good health.

The obverse features the effigy of His Majesty King Charles III by Canadian artist Steven Rosati.

ABOUT THE ROYAL CANADIAN MINT

The Royal Canadian Mint is known as one of the most reputable mints in the world. The Ottawa Branch of the Royal Mint opened in 1908 and was renamed The Royal Canadian Mint in 1931 when control was transferred to the Canadian government. Their high standards for excellence and quality allowed them to be the first refinery to manufacture 9999 fine gold bullion coins in 1982, as well as the first to reach 99999 fine gold purity in 1998.