2007 Celebration Of The Arts SD

They are NCLT and also commemorative silver dollars. If you want to classify them even more, they are special edition silver dollars.

There have been 13 such sp. ed. dollars (not counting enameled and gold plated types). Feel free to add to the list if I missed any.

year description
1997 Flying Loon 10th anniversary
1999 International Year of Older People
2001 Replica of 1911 Silver Dollar Design
2002 The Queen Mother
2003 Voyageurs with Canoe (a second type was issued in a set only)
2004 Special Edition Silver Poppy
2006 Medal of Bravery non-enamel
2007 Celebration of the Arts
2010 Spec Ed. 75th anniversary 1935-2010
2011 Special Ed Proof Silver dollar 1911-2011
2012 Grey Cup
2012 Stampede
2012 25th Anniversary Loon

Some folks may not include the anniversary loons in this set and the two loons is also debatable though for me it's not a sp. ed dollar.

We you can see that the Mint is piling on the sp. ed. dollars recently. Hopefully they don't issue 3 in 2013 but I suspect that they will.

I see I also excluded the two high relief coins toos. I have the silver dollars in five categories - regular, special, high relief, enamel and selective gold plate.

The Mint has issued a regular cased proof silver dollar every year since 1971. In some years, they have issued additional 'special' silver dollars that generally have mintages that are significantly lower that the regular proofs. Sometimes, they call them special and sometimes they don't but in general, anything that is not the regular issue is special IMO.

@Adorus, look up the glass Ladybug. You'll be surprised. The Charlton guide really is just trying to give people some idea and it's nowhere near accurate or reflecting the present trend from my personal experience. The guide for circulation is the more practical and useful, not so much for the NCLTs. Just my 2 cents. I had the same reaction like you reading it the first time.

I haven't checked but aren't the special edition dollars normally only issued as proof with no BU version?