White Hunters White Tiger Frozen Effect 3 oz High relief Silver Coin Niue 2022
 
Gold and Silver Bullion Canada is very proud to present this magnificent 3 oz coin featuring the famous white tiger. Take the time to admire the quality of the engraving of this coin, the many details and the addition of snowflakes on its surface.
 
The rendering of the photos due to the color of the coin does not do justice to the quality of the details of this numismatic product.
 
The obverse features the legal tender of Niue Island, the official effigy of Queen Elizabeth II.
 
white tiger, colour variant of the Bengal tiger (Pantheria tigris tigris), the Siberian tiger (P. tigris altaica), or a hybrid between the two subspecies that is characterized by white fur, dark brown or black stripes, and blue eyes. This rare colour mutation, called leucism, which also occurs in many other animals, appears in perhaps one in 10,000 tigers in the wild. The mutation results from the mating of two tigers that carry the recessive allele that produces white fur in their offspring. More specifically, it stems from the substitution of a single amino acid in a single transporter protein that greatly reduces the production of one of the major types of the pigment melanin, called pheomelanin, which produces the reds, oranges, and yellows that appear in a tiger’s fur. White tigers do, however, possess eumelanin, the pigment that colours the tiger’s eyes and the hairs of its stripes. Leucism differs from albinism in that the latter is caused by a complete absence of melanin.