Description
Canada: 2024 $20 Discovering Dinosaurs: Royal Horned Face 1 oz. Pure Silver Coin
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.
Mintage: 8,000
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.