2024 $20 Fine Silver Coin with Black Rhodium Plating: Discovering Dinosaurs - Royal Horned Face

Travel back over 69 million years to Canada's prehistoric past and discover one of Canada's most recently discovered dinosaurs with this 2024 $20 fine silver coin featuring the Royal Horned Face, or Regaliceratops peterhewsi. The fossilized skull design contrasts against a black-rhodium-plated texture representing the hard rock concretion that encased the skull, which was found on the banks of the Oldman River in southern Alberta. The obverse features rhodium plating behind the effigy of His Majesty King Charles III by Steven Rosati.

Palaeontologists from the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, spent three years excavating the 268.64-kilogram fossil depicted on this coin. "When it was being prepared at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and before it received its official scientific name, Regaliceratops was given the nickname 'Hellboy' because the fossil specimen had been very difficult to collect in the field and it was encased in very hard rock, making it very difficult to clean and prepare in the lab," says Dr. François Therrien, the museum's curator of dinosaur palaeoecology.

• Mintage: 8,000
• Diameter: 38 mm
• Weight: 1 oz pure silver
• GST/HST exempt

Includes:
• 2024 $20 Royal Horned Face Dinosaur Fine Silver Coin

Warranty Information:
This product comes with a 30-day return policy through TSC.