Silver Coin - $25 - 2016 - Royal Canadian Mint - 125th Anniversary of the Invention of Basketball.
Mintage - 8500.
This $25 coin is 99.99% pure silver.
Diameter - 36.07 mm.
Nominal Metal Weight - 30.75 g.
The reverse design by Canadian artist Glen Green celebrates the 125th anniversary of basketball's invention by Canadian Dr. James Naismith by recreating the rounded appearance of a basketball which provides a colourful background for the engraved image of a dunk shot in the foreground. The obverse features the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.