2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie
The 2025 Unknown Soldier 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
- Mary-Ann Liu
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 Unknown Soldier Toonie worth?
the 2025 Unknown Soldier 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 Unknown Soldier Toonie rare?
- No. It was made in large numbers, so circulated examples are worth face value.
- How many 2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie coins were made?
- The Royal Canadian Mint has not published a circulation figure in our source.
- Who designed the 2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie?
- The design is credited to Mary-Ann Liu.
- What is the 2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie made of?
- Bimetallic multi-ply plated steel. It weighs 6.92 g and measures 28 mm.
- Is the 2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie still legal tender?
- Yes. Every toonie, commemoratives included, is legal tender in Canada.
Why the 2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie was made
Canada's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier stands in front of the National War Memorial in Ottawa. On May 28, 2000, the remains of an unidentified Canadian soldier of the First World War, brought home from a cemetery near Vimy Ridge in France, were laid to rest there. The soldier was chosen precisely because nobody knows who he was: he stands for every Canadian who died in service, especially the many with no known grave.
Since then the tomb has become the emotional center of Remembrance Day in Ottawa, where people leave their poppies on it after the national ceremony. For the 25th anniversary of the burial in 2025, the Royal Canadian Mint issued this circulating toonie. On select coins the poppy in the design is colored red. It completes a long run of remembrance toonies stretching back through the Armistice, Vimy and Flanders Fields coins and it also links back to the 1994 remembrance loonie, which shows the memorial before the tomb was added. The figure for how many went into circulation was not published in the source.
How to recognize it
Mary-Ann Liu's design shows the silhouettes of four soldiers saluting behind the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. In front of the tomb lies a poppy, colored red on select coins. The rim carries the lettering 'Tomb of the Unknown Soldier' on the left with the French equivalent on the right. The silhouettes are flat and dark in feel, which gives the coin a quiet, solemn look different from the busier battle scenes on earlier wartime toonies. Look for the four saluting figures above the tomb and the poppy in front to confirm the design, along with the 2025 date. The silhouettes set it apart from the 2018 Armistice toonie, which pairs its poppy with a helmet instead.
2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie by the numbers
The Royal Canadian Mint has not published a circulation figure for the 2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie in our source, so it cannot be ranked against other toonies yet.
2025 brought 1 other circulating toonie design.
What to check on your 2025 Unknown Soldier Toonie
- Confirm the design: the Unknown Soldier 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.
How many went into circulation is not recorded in the source, so its scarcity cannot be measured against other toonies. Plain circulated coins are face value. If yours has a red poppy, it is one of the select colored coins and it draws more interest, particularly when the color is complete. Color sits on the surface and rubs with handling, so a coin with a full poppy is the one to keep and it can carry a small premium. The rim lettering and the edges of the silhouettes are the details that show wear first.
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 | Mary-Ann Liu |
Other 2025 toonies
| Coin | Circulation mintage | Value band |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 Daphne Odjig Toonie | – | Face value |
Frequently asked questions
What does the 2025 toonie commemorate?
The 25th anniversary of Canada's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where an unidentified First World War soldier was laid to rest in Ottawa on May 28, 2000. Mary-Ann Liu designed the coin.
Why do some 2025 Unknown Soldier toonies have a red poppy?
The Mint colored the poppy in front of the tomb on select coins. The rest show the same design in plain metal. The colored coins attract more attention, especially when the red is complete and unscratched.
Mintage figures: Toonie (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0), compiled from Royal Canadian Mint figures. How we build these pages.