The Royal Canadian Mint has issued the third coin in the ‘Canadian Great Lakes’ series featuring Lake Erie. 

The fourth largest of the Great Lakes in terms of surface area, Lake Erie is the smallest in volume. It is hydrologically supplied by the three upper Great Lakes—Superior, Michigan, and Huron—as well as Lake St. Clair and the St. Clair River and drains into the Niagara River and the Welland Canal. The Point Pelee peninsula on Erie’s northern shore is the most southerly mainland point in Canada.

This coin features an interpretation of the bathymetric depths below the lake surface based on data from the Canadian Hydrographic Service and highlighted with coloured enamel.