04 December 2024
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If you’re a coin collector with a passion for prehistoric history, The Royal Mint’s new three-coin collection is a must-have. A new three-coin collection explores the stories of three gentle giants from the Ice Age – the steppe mammoth, woolly rhinoceros and giant deer.
The Ice Age Giants Collection from Royal Mint
For coin collectors, this series offers an opportunity to own stunning, scientifically accurate depictions of these ancient creatures. As each coin in the set features a scientifically and anatomically accurate reverse design created by palaeo-artist Robert Nicholls. Designed in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, these coins are a perfect addition to any coin collector’s portfolio, the collection features two colour-printed editions of each coin – a brilliant uncirculated colour and a silver proof colour version.
2024 Ice Age Giant Silver Proof Coin Set
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The three-coin collection has been meticulously designed to celebrate the stories of mighty giants that roamed the earth during the Ice Age. Palaeo-artist Robert Nicholls has created three scientifically and anatomically accurate depictions of each of these Ice Age giants with expert guidance from the Natural History Museum, with expert guidance from Paleobiologist Professor Adrian Lister.
These three Ice Age creatures were some of the largest mammals to have roamed the Earth during the Pleistocene Epoch. The Pleistocene Epoch, also referred to as the Ice Age, began around 2.6 million years ago. This period saw vast glaciers, known as ice sheets, expand across the Earth’s surface and take up large swathes of land. The ice sheets extended beyond the North and South Poles, where they still exist today, and reached as far as the Midlands in England and across what is now Canada and the northern United States of America. These ice sheets could be up to 3km thick and nearly all animal and plant life was excluded from the areas they covered.
The large mammals, known as megafauna, of the Pleistocene Epoch lived in the southerly areas next to them, where plant life thrived and supported an abundance of life. With a vast quantity of the world’s water frozen, the sea levels fell, which resulted in animals roaming between different areas of land, and species spreading to new habitats that had previously been separated by water.
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