Editing Loonie (section)

==Specimen set editions==
In 1997, 2002, and each year since 2004, the Royal Canadian Mint has issued a one-dollar coin that depicts a different and unique image of a bird on the coin's reverse.<ref name="saskatooncoinclub.ca">{{Cite web|url=http://www.saskatooncoinclub.ca/articles/09c_1-dollar_specimen.html|title=Canadian Specimen Set 1 Dollar Coins|website=www.saskatooncoinclub.ca|access-date=November 20, 2020|archive-date=October 13, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231013231220/http://www.saskatooncoinclub.ca/articles/09c_1-dollar_specimen.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>  These special loonies have limited mintages and are available only in the six-coin specimen sets.
[[Image:Big loonie.jpg|right|thumb|The ''Big Loonie'' in [[Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional|Echo Bay]], [[Ontario]]]]
{|class="wikitable"
!Year
!Theme
!Artist
!Mintage
|-
|1997
|10th anniversary of the loonie<ref name="saskatooncoinclub.ca"/>
|Jean-Luc Grondin
|97,595
|-
|2002
|15th anniversary of the loonie<ref>Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, 60th Anniversary Edition, p. 315</ref>
|[[Dora de Pédery-Hunt]]
|67,672
|-
|2004
|[[Jack Miner]] Bird Sanctuary<ref>Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, 62nd Edition, p. 236</ref>
|Susan Taylor
|46,493
|-
|2005
|[[Tufted puffin]]<ref>Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, 62nd Edition, p. 237</ref>
|Mark Hobson
|39,818
|-
|2006
|[[Snowy owl]]<ref>Charlton Standard Catalogue of Canadian Coins, 62nd Edition, p. 238</ref>
|[[Glen Loates]]
|39,935
|-
|2007
|[[Trumpeter swan]]
|Kerri Burnett
|40,000
|-
|2008
|[[Common eider]]
|Mark Hobson
|40,000
|-
|2009
|[[Great blue heron]]
|Chris Jordison
|40,000
|-
|2010
|[[Northern harrier]]
|[[Arnold Nogy]]
|35,000
|-
|2011
|[[Great grey owl]]
|Arnold Nogy
|35,000
|-
|2012
|25th anniversary of the loonie
|Arnold Nogy
|35,000
|-
|2013
|[[Blue-winged teal]]
|[[Glen Loates]]
|50,000
|-
|2014
|[[Ferruginous hawk]]
|Trevor Tennant
|50,000
|-
|2015
|[[Blue jay]]
|[[Brent Townsend]]
|30,000
|-
|2016
|[[Tundra swan]]
|Glen Scrimshaw
|30,000
|-
|2017
|[[Snow goose]]
|Pierre Girard
|30,000
|-
|2018
|[[Burrowing owl]]
|Pierre Girard
|30,000
|-
|2019
|[[Pileated woodpecker]]
|Jean-Charles Daumas
|30,000
|-
|2020
|[[Black-footed ferret]]
|Caitlin Lindstrom-Milne
|25,000
|-
|2021
|[[Blanding's turtle]]
|Pierre Girard
|30,000
|-
|2022
|[[Swift fox]]
|Claude Thivierge
|30,000
|-
|2023
|[[Greater sage-grouse]]
|David Caesar 
|30,000
|}