CANADA
2024
$20 Discovering Dinosaurs Royal Horned Face - Rhodium-Plated Pure Silver Coin
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Specifications:
Mintage: 8000
RCM Number: 245121
Composition: 99.99% pure Silver
Weight: 31.39 gm
Diameter: 38 mm
Face Value: $20
Finish: Matte Proof
Edge: Serrated
Artist: Julius Csotonyi (reverse), Steven Rosati (obverse)
Presenting “Royal Horned Face,” another Canadian dinosaur discovery.
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.