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Description
This is the second issue in the silver bullion coin series "Rise of the Dinosaurs" and is dedicated to Coelophysis. The limited edition is delivered in the original blister card of the South African Mint.
Coelophysis is an extinct genus of coelophysid theropod dinosaur that lived approximately 228 to 201.3 million years ago during the latter part of the Triassic Period from the Carnian and Rhaetian faunal stages in what is now the southwestern United States.
Coelophysis was a small, slenderly-built, ground-dwelling, bipedal carnivore that could grow up to 3 m (9.8 ft) long. It is one of the earliest known dinosaur genera. Scattered material representing similar animals has been found worldwide in some Late Triassic and Early Jurassic formations. Coelophysis Rhodesiensis has been recovered in the Upper Elliott Formation in the Cape and Free State provinces of South Africa as well as the Chitake River bonebed quarry at the Forest Sandstone Formation in Zimbabwe.
Engraver: M. J. Scheepers
Obverse
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Depicts the fossilised skull, neck and shoulder of an Erythrosuchus Africanus. The country name and the inscriptions including the year 2020 in Roman numerals MMXX below. RISE OF THE DINOSAURS |
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Reverse
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Depicts two dinosaurs (one full body, and one head) of Coelophysis on a dusty indicated soil. The value in the centre, with inscriptions below, and the engraver's initials on the bottom right. 25 |
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25 Rand
Rise of the Dinosaurs
Coelophysis
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Rise of the Dinosaurs
Coelophysis
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