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50 Pence - Elizabeth II Megalosaurus, Gold Proof
| Issuer | Royal Mint |
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| Year | 2020 |
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| Composition | Gold (.9167) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 2020 - Proof - 360 |
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The Megalosaurus was the first dinosaur to receive a formal scientific name, described by William Buckland at Oxford in 1824 from fragmentary jaw remains found in a Stonesfield quarry. The name itself — coined by James Parkinson the year before Buckland's paper — predates the word "dinosaur" by nearly two decades. This 2020 issue inaugurated the Royal Mint's dinosaur series, a commercially shrewd program timed loosely around the bicentenary of early British palaeontology.
The gold proof was struck to the Mint's standard 22-carat specification at 15.5 g, sharing its diameter with the circulating fifty pence — a deliberate design continuity that links the bullion piece back to the everyday coin.