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5 Dollars - Charles III Carcharodontosaurus
| Emittent | Cook Islands |
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| Jahr | 2026 |
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| Material | Silver (.9999) |
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| Aversbeschreibung | An inlaid smaller coin disc bearing the right-facing effigy of King Charles III is set into the lower-left quadrant of the field, surrounded by the legend '5 DOLLARS · CHARLES III · COOK ISLANDS ·' with the engraver's initials 'DT' below the portrait. The broader field features a highly detailed high-relief depiction of a hatchling Carcharodontosaurus emerging from a cracked egg, its scaled head, open eye, and clawed forelimb rendered in vivid sculptural detail against a background of prehistoric fern fronds executed in antique finish. |
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| Averslegende | 5 DOLLARS · CHARLES III DT · COOK ISLANDS · |
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Carcharodontosaurus, the North African theropod whose name translates roughly as "shark-toothed lizard," was for decades known only from fragmentary material destroyed in the Munich bombing raids of 1944. The genus was effectively lost to science until Paul Sereno's 1996 expedition recovered a far more complete skull from the Sahara, reigniting serious study of what may have rivaled Tyrannosaurus in size. Cook Islands has made a cottage industry of silver bullion issues tied to paleontological subjects, and this piece sits in that commercially driven but technically precise niche.