2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie
The 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie is a circulating toonie. Value band: face value. Here is how to recognize it, what makes one worth more and what to check on yours.
- Year
- 2025
- Circulation mintage
- Not published
- Value band
- Face value
- Designer
- Daphne Odjig
Original illustration of the coin's shape and metal. Tap to flip. Not a picture of the actual design.
Face value · Small premium · Collector premium · Significant rarity. We use bands because prices change daily.
What is a 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie worth?
the 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie is easy to find. A circulated one is worth face value; collectors pay a little more only for uncirculated coins.
What would make yours worth more:
- Uncirculated condition
- Colored versions from collector packs
- Specimen or proof finish from a Mint set
For market prices, look at recent sold results for the same coin in the same condition, not asking prices.
Quick answers
- Is the 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie rare?
- No. It was made in large numbers, so circulated examples are worth face value.
- How many 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie coins were made?
- The Royal Canadian Mint has not published a circulation figure in our source.
- Who designed the 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie?
- The design is credited to Daphne Odjig.
- What is the 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie made of?
- Bimetallic multi-ply plated steel. It weighs 6.92 g and measures 28 mm.
- Is the 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie still legal tender?
- Yes. Every toonie, commemoratives included, is legal tender in Canada.
Why the 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie was made
Daphne Odjig was born in 1919 at Wikwemikong on Manitoulin Island, Ontario, of Odawa and Potawatomi heritage. Largely self-taught, she developed a distinctive style of flowing, curving lines and bold color that drew on Anishinaabe stories and modern art alike. In 1973 she was a founding member of the group of Indigenous artists that became known as the Indian Group of Seven, which pushed for Indigenous art to be recognized as contemporary fine art rather than craft.
She also ran a gallery in Winnipeg that gave younger Indigenous artists a place to show their work and she was appointed to the Order of Canada. Her paintings, murals and prints are held in major Canadian collections and she worked well into old age before her death in 2016. In 2025 the Royal Canadian Mint issued this circulating toonie to celebrate her life and art, using her own paintings as the basis for the design, so Odjig is credited as the designer. Its circulation mintage was not published in the source used here, so the coin's numbers cannot be compared with older toonies.
How to recognize it
The core features a cropped section of Odjig's 1977 painting The Folk Singer, showing a woman holding a drum, rendered in the smooth, flowing lines typical of her work. The outer ring includes an engraved reproduction of a fisher, the forest animal, taken from her 1978 painting The Indian in Transition, where it stood as a visual sign for her surname. Look for the woman with the drum in the core and the fisher on the ring to confirm the design. Like the Bill Reid and Riopelle coins, it is based directly on an artist's own work, so the curves and outlines are meant to read as hers, not as a typical coin engraving.
2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie by the numbers
The Royal Canadian Mint has not published a circulation figure for the 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie in our source, so it cannot be ranked against other toonies yet.
It was released in 2025 alongside 1 other circulating toonie design.
What to check on your 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie
- Confirm the design: the Daphne Odjig reverse dated 2025, in a silver-colored ring with a gold-colored center.
- Check whether it has added color. Colored toonies came from collector products or special circulation releases; keep them out of rough handling.
- Look at the join between ring and core. It should be tight and even; a loose or damaged core is damage, not a rarity.
- Specimen and proof toonies from Mint sets have satin or mirror finishes that circulation coins never have.
The source gives no circulation mintage, so a comparison by numbers is not possible. The coin went into everyday change and worn examples are face value. Odjig's style relies on smooth, continuous lines, which flatten as a coin wears, so look along the outlines of the woman and the drum to judge condition. A bright coin with crisp lines and a clear fisher on the ring can carry a small premium. It pairs naturally with the 2020 Bill Reid and 2023 Riopelle toonies for a small set of artist tributes.
Mintage chart
Specifications
| Country | Canada |
|---|---|
| Denomination | 2 dollars |
| Issuer | Royal Canadian Mint |
| Year | 2025 |
| Circulation mintage | Not published |
| Composition | Bimetallic multi-ply plated steel |
| Weight | 6.92 g |
| Diameter | 28 mm |
| Shape | Round |
| Edge | Intermittent milling |
| Designer | Daphne Odjig |
Other 2025 toonies
| Coin | Circulation mintage | Value band |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie | – | Face value |
Frequently asked questions
What painting is on the Daphne Odjig toonie?
The core is based on The Folk Singer, her 1977 painting of a woman holding a drum. The ring adds a fisher from her 1978 painting The Indian in Transition, a nod to her surname.
Why is there a fisher on the 2025 toonie?
In Odjig's 1978 painting The Indian in Transition, a fisher appears as a visual sign for her surname. The Mint engraved it on the outer ring as a personal signature for this tribute to her life and art.
Mintage figures: Toonie (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0), compiled from Royal Canadian Mint figures. How we build these pages.