When fall paints Canada’s landscapes, its colours are anything but flat—it imbues even the silhouette of a single maple leaf with a spectrum of vivid hues.

That wondrous range is captured on the 2026 Ultra High Relief (UHR) Silver Maple Leaf (SML) coin, where Walter Ott’s classic maple leaf has been rendered in Ultra High Relief, polished to a high shine, and finished with our innovative new Vivid Toning Effect—a Mint first that produces intense colours with a foil-like finish. The technology catches the light to reveal realistic flashes of yellow, orange and red that shimmer across the leaf’s surface, echoing the way sunlight filters through a Canadian forest canopy on a bright autumn day. The luminous effect is further amplified by a new maple-themed field pattern that is bursting with rays of light, reflecting endless pride in Canada’s autumnal elegance.

A dual-tech design: UHR with Vivid Toning Effect!