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.

Black rhodium plating. Both sides (obverse and reverse) are enhanced with black rhodium plating. On the reverse, the rock texture represents the mysteries of the past and the thrill of a Canadian dinosaur discovery—it transports the viewer to the banks of the Oldman River in Alberta, where the skull was found encased in limestone.

KEY FEATURES:

• Coin #3: Discovering Dinosaurs places you in the field and at the site of an exciting Canadian dinosaur discovery.
• Crafted in 99.99% pure silver, with selective black rhodium plating
  on the reverse and obverse.
• Designed by one of Canada’s foremost paleoartists, this fossil depiction has been verified for scientific accuracy by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alta., where the skull is on permanent display.
  
  

2024 $20 Fine Silver Coin - Discovering Dinosaurs: Royal Horned Face has a limited mintage of 8,000 coins