Canada: 2022 $20 Discovering Dinosaurs: Mercury's Horned Face 1 oz. Pure Silver Coin

Canada: 2022 $20 Discovering Dinosaurs: Mercury's Horned Face 1 oz. Pure Silver Coin

Design: Designed by Canadian paleoartist Julius Csotonyi, the coin’s reverse features the fossilized skull of Mercuriceratops gemini, a recently discovered horned dinosaur species. Beneath the black rhodium plating, the engraved texture represents the rock formation in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park where a key fossil fragment was found. The obverse also features rhodium plating behind the effigy of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II by Susanna Blunt.

Mintage: 10,000

Composition: 99.99% pure silver with selective rhodium plating

Finish: Matte Proof

Weight (g): 31.39

Diameter (mm): 38

Edge: serrated

Face value: $20

Artist: Julius Csotonyi (reverse), Susanna Blunt (obverse)

Packaging: Your coin is individually encapsulated and presented in a Royal Canadian Mint-branded clamshell with a black beauty box.