April 12, 2024
2010 $300 Platinum Prehistoric Ground Sloth, 200 Minted .999 Ice Age Proof.
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Forget about buying Platinum Proof Eagles, w/the lowest mintage of 8000. Here we have one of the rarest of Platinum Proof coins: Thomas Jefferson's Prehistoric Ground Slough, 1 Oz. Platinum Proof Coin, from the Royal Canadian Mint. Only 200 Minted world wide. Thomas Jefferson - Paleontologist (Taken from the Net.) In 1796, Colonel John Stuart sent Thomas Jefferson some fossil bones (a femur fragment, ulna, radius, and some foot bones including three large claws) from a cave in Greenbrier County, Virginia (present-day West Virginia). In 1797, Jefferson (who was serving at the time as Vice President) presented a paper on "Certain Bones" to the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia. He theorized that they were the remains of an extinct lion which he named Megalonyx ("giant claw").With the reading of this historic paper, Jefferson is considered to have initiated the science of vertebrate paleontology in the United States In 1799, Dr. Caspar Wistar correctly identified the remains as belonging to a giant ground sloth. In 1822, Wistar proposed naming it Megalonyx Jeffersonii in honor of the former president. French zoologist Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest then published it as such.The Jefferson's Giant Ground Sloth 1 Ounce Pure Platinum Proof is the fourth annual issue in the Extinct Prehistoric Animals 1 Ounce Series. Several species
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