Coins featuring dinosaurs and prehistoric life

I know this isn't a "serious" area of collecting but my son likes dinosaurs so I decided to see what was out there for coins with dinosaurs on them. There's a lot that's not in my wheelhouse - I don't like colored coins or other gimmicks. But I did find some that I like, which I want to share here. There are still some others out there that I don't have yet, and I have the 2021 British 50 pence set on the way in the mail. I'm also including a few non-dinosaurs that are nevertheless extinct animals. Add any that you might have too. The first coin here features a fossil of a cave bear.

 

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Second group. Two silvers in here. Also, it's hard to find a woolly mammoth coin that does not involve it being hunted by early man. Something about a mammoth with a spear sticking out of it is not exactly what I'm looking for.

 

Finally for now, here's the 2020 British 50 pence set of dinosaurs discovered in Britain. These come in a case that you can't remove them from without destroying it as far as I can tell so it's hard to get good pictures. I have the 2021 set on the way from Britain but it's not here yet.

 

Wow, certainly more than I expected to see. Some real nice examples there

 

Well, since birds are (literally) dinosaurs:

 

Closest I have are these elongated. Too bad they are on Zincolns, kind of cool still. 20 different kinds.

 

Here is a dinosaur with a coin-like name.

 

Mongolia has several. Some of the newer ones are more of the "gimmicky" variety (although I somewhat like the look). Here is a link to those:

https://coinweek.com/world-coins/sinraptor-inaugurates-new-dinosaur-coin-series-from-cit/

Then they have older ones that are more "standard"

https://colnect.com/en/coins/coin/6...Peoples_Republic_Numismatic_Products-Mongolia

https://colnect.com/en/coins/coin/2...day_-_Republic_-_Numismatic_Products-Mongolia

https://en.numista.com/catalogue/pieces115582.html

 

Someone missed the marketing opportunity of using an elongated dime for that one.

 

Alberta Dinosaur Exhibition Token, 1993 (good for $1.00)

 

Those new ones are kind of neat. I think I see trilobites and I've always liked those.

 

Here's my latest dino coins.

 

I had picked these up for my grand-daughter when they were issued. Not my picture, apparently, I haven't taken any of these. Really gimmicky but they made here happy.

 

Neat idea. Two thumbs-up from this guy!

 

Austria 3 Euro - Series
https://www.muenzeoesterreich.at/eng/collect/euro-coins/3-euro-coins

 

I wish they weren't in color because I have an aversion to colored coins. I'd also buy the turtle coin on that page too if it wasn't colored.

 

We all like dinosaurs. I like your coins.

 

Now that’s a cool coin

 

Here's two recent acquisitions.

 

I just added this Laos 50 kip with a sauroctonus.