Description
In 2005, a prehistoric snout encased in very hard concretion was spotted in a cliff overlooking Alberta’s Oldman River…
The third Discovering Dinosaurs coin from the Royal Canadian Mint shines a spotlight on Regaliceratops peterhewsi, a horned dinosaur that lived 69 million years ago. After a challenging extraction, paleontologists at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology determined that the mostly intact skull—depicted here on this 99.99% pure silver coin—belonged to a new species of horned dinosaurs, and it revealed that ceratopsians were more diverse than previously thought. HST/GST Exempt.
The Design:
Designed by Canadian paleoartist Julius Csotonyi, the coin’s reverse features the fossilized skull of Regaliceratops peterhewsi, a recently discovered horned dinosaur species that lived approximately 69 million years ago. Beneath the black rhodium plating, the engraved texture represents the hard concretion that encased the skull, which was found on the banks of the Oldman River in southern Alberta. The obverse also features rhodium plating behind the effigy of His Majesty King Charles III by Canadian artist Steven Rosati.
