€20 Quaternary-Live on the ground Silver Coin

On March 18, The Austria Mint will released a new coin for their Prehistoric Life: Back from the Dead series, a €20 Quaternary-Live on the ground silver proof coin. The .900 fine silver show large woolly mammals, the Mammoths as the main design and legal tender in Austria.

On September last year, a 20 Euro Tertiary-Live on the ground silver proof coin from the same Prehistoric Life: Back from the Dead series has been released with a Sabre-tooth tiger as the main design.

The coin obverse show a mammoth dominates the background, which also shows the skull and tusks
 of a mammoth next to the timeline linking the whole series.

The coin reverse show an Ice Age hunting scene showing Homo sapiens brandishing flaming torches and spears as they attack the giant Mammoths.

Technical Specifications:
Country: Austria
Year: 2015
Face value: 20 euro
Metal: .900 Fine Silver
Diameter: 34.00 mm
Weight: 18.00 g
Alloy: Silver
Quality: Proof
Mintage: 50,000
Release price: €45.00

The Proof Coin comes in a case complete with a numbered certificate of authenticity and protective slipcase.

Beginning 2.6 million ago, the Quaternary has been a period of extreme fluctuations in temperature. During the glaciations typical of the period, up to 30 per cent of the Earth’s surface was covered with ice and snow, but mammals such as the hippopotamus and woolly rhinoceros could be found in Europe during warm periods. Mammoths thrived during cold periods until they died out at the end of the last Ice Age, some 12,000 years ago. Not just the time when mammoths roamed the planet, the Quaternary is also the period when the most dangerous of all species – Homo sapiens – came into being.

The 20 Euro Tertiary-Live on the ground silver coin comes in a case complete with a numbered certificate of authenticity and protective slipcase. You can order the Prehistoric Life: Back from the Dead series coin at The Austrian Mint website www.muenzeoesterreich.at.