3 oz 2026 A Whimsical Tale: Blimp Antiqued Silver Coin | Royal Canadian Mint

Where steam meets sky: Immerse yourself in a steampunk world.

Step back into A Whimsical Tale, where retro-future imagination meets industrial wonder. This second coin offers a return trip to the city from 2025’s Locomotive coin, lifting the adventure into the sky, where a steampunk blimp hovers above a bustling waterway, and where the skyline is shaped by gears and steam. With a wealth of details inviting viewers to explore every corner of this alternate era, this antiqued design blends imaginative storytelling and speculative artistry, Victorian elegance with inventive machinery, capturing the magic of a world that never was—but feels like it could have been.

A Whimsical Tale: The adventure takes flight on Coin #2.

COIN HIGHLIGHTS

• The follow-up to 2025’s A Whimsical Tale: Locomotive. Step back into a world where retro-futuristic technology collides with Victorian-era aesthetics—this is steampunk, a creative style and sci-fi genre that blurs the line between past and future, history and fantasy.
• It’s all in the details. Packed with intricate details—including a fun callback to the first coin—this steampunk airship-themed design turns every viewing into a fresh adventure. (Can you spot all the literary nods?)
• An artistic endeavour. Crafted with painstaking detail, the intricately engraved scene captures the grand aesthetic and adventurous spirit that defines steampunk.
• A world powered by steam. Steampunk is a retro-futuristic world that runs on steam power, and in this portrait, the airship fills the sky with clouds of steam.
• Lower mintage. Crafted in 3 oz. of 99.99% pure silver, A Whimsical Tale: Blimp has a limited mintage of just 1,850 coins worldwide—down from 2,500 in 2025.
• Includes serialized certificate. The Royal Canadian Mint certifies all of its collector coins.
• No GST/HST.

PACKAGING

Your coin is encapsulated and presented in a black Royal Canadian Mint-branded clamshell with a black beauty box.

A STEAMPUNK WORLD

While its many components are inspired by historical elements, this steampunk-styled visual story is more fantasy than fact—the design elements are creatively interpreted rather than historically precise.

ANTIQUE FINISH

Complementing the theme, the antique finish imparts a lustrous patina that perfectly captures the look of aged metal and machinery.

OBVERSE PATTERN

Another key element of steampunk? Gears! These are represented on the reverse and on the obverse, where gear shapes form a fun industrial-themed pattern.

DID YOU KNOW?

Despite its Victorian-era esthetic, steampunk’s airships—including blimps—are often modelled on rigid-frame designs inspired by 1920s Zeppelins.

The reverse design by Canadian illustrator Joel Kimmel transports the viewer into a fictional steampunk metropolis built around a winding waterway. Overhead, a blimp drifts through steam-filled skies, while below, a submarine glides toward a dock jutting from the bustling boardwalk, where pedestrians take in the water-level view of the Victorian-inspired buildings accented with industrial elements. Further enhancing the steampunk vibe, gear motifs help frame the composition and form a laser-engraved field pattern on the obverse, which features the effigy of His Majesty King Charles III by Canadian artist Steven Rosati.

The reverse also includes subtle literary nods—the tentacles surrounding the submarine and the spear-wielding diver pay tribute to Jules Verne’s “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” while on the far left, the alien machine is from H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds”—and a callback to the first coin in the series, as a familiar locomotive chugs along the bridge in the distance.

ABOUT THE ROYAL CANADIAN MINT

The Royal Canadian Mint is known as one of the most reputable mints in the world. The Ottawa Branch of the Royal Mint opened in 1908 and was renamed The Royal Canadian Mint in 1931 when control was transferred to the Canadian government. Their high standards for excellence and quality allowed them to be the first refinery to manufacture 9999 fine gold bullion coins in 1982, as well as the first to reach 99999 fine gold purity in 1998.