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Great Britain Ice Age Woolly Rhinoceros 2024 50p Colour Silver Proof Coin

$179.00 AUD
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  • Paying homage to one of the Ice Age giants – the Woolly Rhinoceros!
  • Struck to Proof quality from 8g of sterling silver, enhanced with colour!
  • Extremely exclusive! Limited edition restricted to just 2,500 coins!
  • Produced in collaboration with Britain’s Natural History Museum.
  • Official British legal tender – spans 27.30mm in diameter.
  • Presented in a Royal Mint case with a Certificate of Authenticity.

The Royal Mint’s Tales of the Earth continues with its second coin commemorating Ice Age giants. Although vast areas of the globe were taken up by ice sheets during the Pleistocene Epoch, which is often referred to as the Ice Age, there were also large areas of land where 
greenery flourished and these open grassland areas sustained a wide variety of life, including the woolly rhinoceros.

One of the largest beasts to roam the Earth during the Ice Age, the woolly rhinoceros was similar in appearance to its modern-day counterpart. Weighing around 2 tonnes, it was about the same size as a living African white rhinoceros but had a thick double-layered wool coat and a sabre-like front horn, which is thought to have been used to clear 
snow when searching for food.

This Woolly Rhinoceros UK 50p coin features a reverse design created by palaeo-artist Robert Nicholls in collaboration with the expert guidance of palaeobiologist Professor Adrian Lister from the Natural History Museum.

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Downies Collectables

Great Britain Ice Age Woolly Rhinoceros 2024 50p Colour Silver Proof Coin

$179.00 AUD

The Royal Mint’s Tales of the Earth continues with its second coin commemorating Ice Age giants. Although vast areas of the globe were taken up by ice sheets during the Pleistocene Epoch, which is often referred to as the Ice Age, there were also large areas of land where 
greenery flourished and these open grassland areas sustained a wide variety of life, including the woolly rhinoceros.

One of the largest beasts to roam the Earth during the Ice Age, the woolly rhinoceros was similar in appearance to its modern-day counterpart. Weighing around 2 tonnes, it was about the same size as a living African white rhinoceros but had a thick double-layered wool coat and a sabre-like front horn, which is thought to have been used to clear 
snow when searching for food.

This Woolly Rhinoceros UK 50p coin features a reverse design created by palaeo-artist Robert Nicholls in collaboration with the expert guidance of palaeobiologist Professor Adrian Lister from the Natural History Museum.

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