April 12, 2024
Canada 2008 Dinosaur Fossil Triceratops $4 Pure Silver Proof w Fossil Technology
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TRICERATOPS; 2nd in Series of $4 Dinosaur Fossil Coin Royal Canadian Mint; 2008 w/ Certificate of Authenticity Artist; Kerri Burnet About This Triceratops. - A selective finish has been applied to the reverse of the coin to give its design an aged appearance. Variations in tone and colour are a direct result of this process. No two coins will be alike.- Designs approved by the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology. It is a discovery that sends hearts pounding and opens a window to the mystifying world of dinosaurs. Their fossilized bones testify to the massive beasts that once ruled the earth but disappeared suddenly 65 million years ago. During the time of these great beasts, a great inland sea covered much of western Canada and the area now known as Alberta and Saskatchewan was a lush subtropical shore and home to over 35 dinosaur species. As these animals died, the evolving landscape covered their bones with centuries of mud and sand only to be revealed when the glaciers from the last Ice Age scraped away the top layers of rock and exposed bits of fossilized bone. Discovered by paleontologists in the late 1800's, they inspired generations of dinosaur hunters and established Canada as one of the richest sources of Late Cretaceous fossils on earth. Triceratops was one of 14 horned (ceratopsian) species that flourished throughout
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