Rhodium-Plated Pure Silver Coin - Discovering Dinosaurs: Royal Horned Face - Mintage: 8,000 (2024)

In 2005, a prehistoric snout encased in calcareous concretion was spotted in a cliff overlooking Alberta’s Oldman River. After a challenging extraction, the mostly intact skull-the one depicted on this coin-proved to be a significant discovery: its unusual mix of features, such as the set of horns and an elaborate frill, led paleontologists at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology to determine that the skull belonged to a new species of horned dinosaurs, and that ceratopsians were more diverse than previously thought!
Unveiled in 2015, Regaliceratops peterhewsi makes its coin debut on this 2024 collectible, where the 69-million-year-old skull shines against the black rhodium-plated “limestone” background.
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I have the "Reaper of Death" from this Discovering Dinosaurs series as well as some 2oz bullion "Smilodon Sabre Toothed Cat" and "Woolly Mammoth" coins from the Ice Age series. I really enjoy Julius Csotonyi's artwork. They are some of my very favorite in my collection and are absolutely beautiful