Rhodium-Plated Pure Silver Coin – Discovering Dinosaurs: Royal Horned Face

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$124.95 CAD

Rhodium-Plated Pure Silver Coin – Discovering Dinosaurs: Royal Horned Face

Silver 2024 Mintage 8,000

Rhodium-Plated Pure Silver Coin – Discovering Dinosaurs: Royal Horned Face

Silver 2024 Mintage 8,000
$124.95 CAD
Masters Club: 1,250 Status: CAN & US shipping only
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Features

Rhodium Plating
"NEW" Dinosaur
Engraved Textured

Specifications

Product Number 245121
Mintage 8,000
Composition 99.99% pure silver with selective rhodium plating
Weight 31.39 g
Diameter 38 mm
Edge Serrated
Face Value $20
Finish Matte Proof
Packaging Black clamshell with black beauty box
Artist Julius Csotonyi (reverse), Steven Rosati (obverse)

Design & Artist

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Obverse

Julius Csotonyi, Paleoartist

As a biologist, I found it thrilling to illustrate the recently described horned dinosaur, Regaliceratops ("Royal Horned Face"), because its skull—possessing features from both major groups of horned dinosaurs—bears the earmarks of the process of convergent evolution, so it looks a bit like a chimeric mishmash. Illustrating its skull was no trivial task because its brow ridges, frill, and crown-gem-like epiparietal ornaments fit together at odd angles, giving it an overall boxy, stealth jet-like appearance.

Julius Csotonyi, Paleoartist

Dr. François Therrien, Curator of Dinosaur Palaeoecology, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

Regaliceratops is the newest addition to the big family of Canadian horned dinosaurs—in fact, Canada, and Alberta in particular, should be called the “Land of the Ceratopsians,” because nowhere else on Earth do you find as many different types of horned dinosaurs as you do here! Discovered in southwestern Alberta, Regaliceratops comes from an area where very few dinosaurs had been discovered before. It is an important fossil because it fills an important gap in the fossil record: Regaliceratops lived around 69 million years ago, a time interval during which we know very little about the dinosaurs that inhabited North America.

Dr. François Therrien, Curator of Dinosaur Palaeoecology, Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology

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