Pièce 3 onces d’argent vieillie Un conte fantaisiste : dirigeable 2026 | Monnaie royale canadienne

Where steam meets sky: Immerse yourself in a steampunk world.

Step back into A Whimsical Tale, where retro-future imagination meets industrial wonder. This second coin offers a return trip to the city from 2025’s Locomotive coin, lifting the adventure into the sky, where a steampunk blimp hovers above a bustling waterway, and where the skyline is shaped by gears and steam. With a wealth of details inviting viewers to explore every corner of this alternate era, this antiqued design blends imaginative storytelling and speculative artistry, Victorian elegance with inventive machinery, capturing the magic of a world that never was—but feels like it could have been.

A Whimsical Tale: The adventure takes flight on Coin #2.

CARACTÉRISTIQUES DE LA PIÈCE

• The follow-up to 2025’s A Whimsical Tale: Locomotive. Step back into a world where retro-futuristic technology collides with Victorian-era aesthetics—this is steampunk, a creative style and sci-fi genre that blurs the line between past and future, history and fantasy.
• It’s all in the details. Packed with intricate details—including a fun callback to the first coin—this steampunk airship-themed design turns every viewing into a fresh adventure. (Can you spot all the literary nods?)
• An artistic endeavour. Crafted with painstaking detail, the intricately engraved scene captures the grand aesthetic and adventurous spirit that defines steampunk.
• A world powered by steam. Steampunk is a retro-futuristic world that runs on steam power, and in this portrait, the airship fills the sky with clouds of steam.
• Lower mintage. Crafted in 3 oz. of 99.99% pure silver, A Whimsical Tale: Blimp has a limited mintage of just 1,850 coins worldwide—down from 2,500 in 2025.
• Un certificat numéroté inclus. La Monnaie royale canadienne garantit l'authenticité de toutes ses pièces de collection.
• Aucune TPS ni TVH.

EMBALLAGE

La pièce est encapsulée et présentée dans un boîtier à double coque noir orné du logo de la Monnaie royale canadienne, assorti d’une boîte protectrice noire.

A STEAMPUNK WORLD

Bien que ses nombreuses composantes soient inspirées d’éléments historiques, cette histoire visuelle de style steampunk relève davantage de la fantaisie que de la réalité : les éléments du motif sont interprétés avec créativité plutôt que reproduits avec une précision historique.

FINITION ANTIQUE

En harmonie avec le thème, le fini antique confère une patine lustrée qui reproduit parfaitement l’aspect du métal et de la machinerie vieillis.

LE MOTIF DE L'AVERS

Another key element of steampunk? Gears! These are represented on the reverse and on the obverse, where gear shapes form a fun industrial-themed pattern.

LE SAVIEZ-VOUS ?

Despite its Victorian-era esthetic, steampunk’s airships—including blimps—are often modelled on rigid-frame designs inspired by 1920s Zeppelins.

The reverse design by Canadian illustrator Joel Kimmel transports the viewer into a fictional steampunk metropolis built around a winding waterway. Overhead, a blimp drifts through steam-filled skies, while below, a submarine glides toward a dock jutting from the bustling boardwalk, where pedestrians take in the water-level view of the Victorian-inspired buildings accented with industrial elements. Further enhancing the steampunk vibe, gear motifs help frame the composition and form a laser-engraved field pattern on the obverse, which features the effigy of His Majesty King Charles III by Canadian artist Steven Rosati.

The reverse also includes subtle literary nods—the tentacles surrounding the submarine and the spear-wielding diver pay tribute to Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” while on the far left, the alien machine is from H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds”—and a callback to the first coin in the series, as a familiar locomotive chugs along the bridge in the distance.

À PROPOS DE LA MONNAIE ROYALE CANADIENNE

La Monnaie royale canadienne est connue pour être l'une des monnaies les plus réputées au monde. La succursale d'Ottawa de la Monnaie royale a ouvert ses portes en 1908 et a été rebaptisée Monnaie royale canadienne en 1931 lorsque le contrôle a été transféré au gouvernement canadien. Ses normes élevées d'excellence et de qualité lui ont permis d'être la première raffinerie à fabriquer des pièces d'investissement en or d'une pureté de 9999 en 1982, ainsi que la première à atteindre une pureté d'or de 99999 en 1998.