Canada: 2026 $50 MintLAB - Exceptional Discoveries: Dinosaurs of Canada – Fine Silver Coin

Canada: 2026 $50 MintLAB - Exceptional Discoveries: Dinosaurs of Canada – Fine Silver Coin

Design: Designed by Canadian paleoartist Julius Csotonyi, the coin’s reverse is an artistic rendering of Late Cretaceous Alberta, showing a predator-prey interaction in the lush prehistoric ecosystem. A young Gorgosaurus libratus is depicted as an active hunter, pursuing the smaller Citipes elegans; both are rendered in Ultra High Relief to create a more dimensional appearance. Bridging paleoart with fossil evidence, the obverse features an engraved representation of the Gorgosaurus skeleton, specimen “TMP 2009.12.14” curated at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Alberta, with Citipes remains inside the stomach cavity in the exact position they were preserved. The fossils are surrounded by a trench struck Super Incuse, to simulate their discovery and excavation in Alberta’s Dinosaur Provincial Park in 2009, while the effigy of His Majesty King Charles III by Canadian artist Steven Rosati appears below. The illustrations were reviewed for scientific accuracy by paleontologists at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.

Mintage: 647

Weight: 156 grams

Composition: 99.99% pure silver

Diameter: 65.25mm