In 2014 the Royal Canadian Mint released a news series of coins celebrating coinage effigies of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and this is the first in the series which celebrates the portrait by Mary Gillick Certified Slabbed and Graded by PCGS as PR70.
The Maple Leaf $10 Ten Dollar Gold Proof Coin has been struck in solid fine .9999 Gold weighing one quarter of an ounce of fine pure Gold.
The reverse designed by Celia Godkin depicts two sugar Maple Leaf's while the obverse features the Mary Gillick Portrait of Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II first used on Canadian coinage in 1953, when she was 27 years old.