YELLOWKNIFE - The Royal Canadian Mint made waves with the release of its $20 silver collector's coin to commemorate the 125th anniversary of International Polar Year.
On July 18 the Mint made 15,000 coins available to the public, featuring images of Martin Frobisher, an Inuit in a kayak, a compass, a polar bear and mountains.
In an e-mail to a CanWest News Service journalist, Stephen Hendrie, communications director with the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, said that the images on the coin are reminiscent of Frobisher kidnapping an Inuit kayaker....
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