2024 Steppe Mammoth 50p Silver Proof Colour – Ice Age Giants – Charles III

The 2024 Steppe Mammoth 50p Silver Proof Colour - Ice Age Giants - Charles III

The first coin in a collection from the Royal Mint called Tales of the Earth 'Ice Age Giants', the Steppe Mammoth is a Great Mammoth from the Ice Age. Limited Edition mintage is 2,500 with a maximum mintage of 2,510.

Mammuthus trogontherii (steppe mammoth) was the largest mammoth to ever live, with a shoulder height of 4 metres and weighing around 10 tonnes. It lived in the Early and Middle Pleistocene, approximately 1.7 million to 200,000 years ago. It was the ancestor of the woolly mammoth of the later Pleistocene.

The Royal Mint created the Ice Age Giants collection in collaboration with the Natural History Museum and with the advice of palaeobiologist Professor Adrian Lister. The coins are available in Limited Editions as BU, BU Colour, Silver proof, silver proof colour, and gold proof. Available individually and in sets. The 3-coin sets consist of the Steppe Mammoth, Woolly Rhinoceros and the Giant Deer.

The Reverse of the 2024 Steppe Mammoth 50p was designed by Robert Nicholls and shows the Steppe Mammoth with an image of its skeleton underneath. Legend is "MAMMUTHUS / STEPPE MAMMOTH". Designer initials "RN" to right.

The Obverse is the portrait of King Charles III by Martin Jennings. Legend "CHARLES III D G REX F D 50 PENCE 2024".

Image credit: The Royal Mint

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