New Series - Giants of the Ice Age

[SILVERFINGER]

3 hours ago, daca said:

New release in series is out - Giants of the Ice Age - Saber-Toothed Cat

Machairodontinae is an extinct subfamily of carnivoran mammals of the family Felidae (true cats). They were found in Asia, Africa, North America, South America, and Europe from the Miocene to Pleistocene living from about 16 million until about 11,000 years ago.
The Machairodontinae contain many of the extinct predators commonly known as "saber-toothed cats", including the famed genus Smilodon, as well as other cats with only minor increases in the size and length of their maxillary canines. The name means "dagger-tooth", dagger. Sometimes, other carnivorous mammals with elongated teeth are also called saber-toothed cats, although they do not belong to the felids. Besides the machairodonts, saber-toothed predators also arose in nimravids, barbourofelids, Machaeroidinae, Hyaenodonta and even in two groups of metatherians (thylacosmilids, sparassodonts and deltatheroideans).

 

 

 

https://goldsilver.be/en/miscellaneous/3284-ghana-1-oz-silver-giants-of-the-ice-age-2020-saber-tooth-cat-5-cedis.html

 

There is no Carcharocles Megalodon, that was bigger than all of these  around this time.

[Branman1986]

On 20/05/2020 at 02:18, Cornishfarmer said:

Shocking compared to first two

Shockingly bad?

[sliver99]

I'd have to agree, the face of the tiger looks terrible. I want to complete the set so i've pre-ordered.

[Kraittos]

So, here we are the new coin of this serie. I really love the design of the saber tooth cat. 15000 mintage, so this serie will be a success in my opinion. 

 

[Jkm1988]

That's pretty cool.

Whose it by? Rcm?

[Kraittos]

30 minutes ago, Jkm1988 said:

That's pretty cool.

Whose it by? Rcm?

by Leipziger Edelmetallverarbeitung. It's the third of 8 coins. 

[ChrisSilver]

Topics merged  

[Kraittos]

sorry!!

[Heirlooms]

Does anyone know when the next coin is the series will be released?

[jacksj1]

Loved the first two. Third (tiger) I disliked so much I didn't bother getting it.

[Kraittos]

On 02/08/2020 at 11:17, Heirlooms said:

Does anyone know when the next coin is the series will be released?

Maybe in December

[JonCL]

On 02/08/2020 at 16:59, jacksj1 said:

Loved the first two. Third (tiger) I disliked so much I didn't bother getting it.

It’s an interesting quandary isn’t it- having bought the first coin in a series I always feel that I’m investing in that series- I’m almost bound to buy the rest, no matter how disappointing they might be. 

I suppose the great thing about silver is its intrinsic value, ie, no matter how crummy a series turns out, it’s still worth something.

As an example, earlier this year I bought a set of four Landmarks of Britain- a monumentally (sorry) awful mini-series from the Royal Mint but they only cost me £80.

[RedDragon77]

16 hours ago, JonCL said:

It’s an interesting quandary isn’t it- having bought the first coin in a series I always feel that I’m investing in that series- I’m almost bound to buy the rest, no matter how disappointing they might be. 

I suppose the great thing about silver is its intrinsic value, ie, no matter how crummy a series turns out, it’s still worth something.

As an example, earlier this year I bought a set of four Landmarks of Britain- a monumentally (sorry) awful mini-series from the Royal Mint but they only cost me £80.

Well, that must be cause y'all don't have any good landmarks...  😉

[JonCL]

10 hours ago, RedDragon77 said:

Well, that must be cause y'all don't have any good landmarks...  😉

If all you had to go on was the coins put out by the Royal Mint you might easily come to that conclusion. It quite annoys me how poor their effort was - four landmarks- all in London, all within the same three or four square miles. They don’t even represent bloody London particularly well. However, if they had been the opening foursome of a countrywide set- maybe four designs per county and four per city- each four by a different artist- you’d think it was a shaky start with far better things yet to come; Stonehenge; the Seven Sisters cliffs; Blackpool Tower; the Angel of the North; the Clifton Suspension Bridge; etc, etc. You could even think laterally and have things like the Grand National it’s such a huge and open brief I’m sure artists would have been tripping over each other to land such a dream job.

Maybe the Perth Mint would like to do it- it could go on for years, decades even.

Edited August 10, 2020 by JonCL

[RedDragon77]

9 hours ago, JonCL said:

If all you had to go on was the coins put out by the Royal Mint you might easily come to that conclusion. It quite annoys me how poor their effort was - four landmarks- all in London, all within the same three or four square miles. They don’t even represent bloody London particularly well. However, if they had been the opening foursome of a countrywide set- maybe four designs per county and four per city- each four by a different artist- you’d think it was a shaky start with far better things yet to come; Stonehenge; the Seven Sisters cliffs; Blackpool Tower; the Angel of the North; the Clifton Suspension Bridge; etc, etc. You could even think laterally and have things like the Grand National it’s such a huge and open brief I’m sure artists would have been tripping over each other to land such a dream job.

Maybe the Perth Mint would like to do it- it could go on for years, decades even.

That sounds very ambitious and exciting. 

Hopefully the Stone'enge wouldn't be at risk of being trampled by a bloody dwarf! 🤣

[JonCL]

14 minutes ago, RedDragon77 said:

That sounds very ambitious and exciting. 

Hopefully the Stone'enge wouldn't be at risk of being trampled by a bloody dwarf! 🤣

I was thinking of a similar set to the America The Beautiful quarters. 

And yes Spinal Tap might well qualify as a national treasure- if not exactly a landmark.

[EddieC]

Does anyone have any ideas when the next coin might be released?

[Kraittos]

at the end of the year I guess. 

[SILVERFINGER]

Perhaps they have been 'frozen' 

[rlstineftw]

Is there any interest for these?

I was trying to get rid of the second coin and I got even less than the price of a regular bullion.
The last design is awful, maybe it's because of that. 
 

[EddieC]

10 hours ago, rlstineftw said:

Is there any interest for these?

I was trying to get rid of the second coin and I got even less than the price of a regular bullion.
The last design is awful, maybe it's because of that. 
 

I think generally interest has decline and more so with some. I'm interested in completing the series.

[Kraittos]

11 hours ago, rlstineftw said:

Is there any interest for these?

I was trying to get rid of the second coin and I got even less than the price of a regular bullion.
The last design is awful, maybe it's because of that. 
 

..... I really want To believe you about the prices but.... I don't 

[ravenshunter]

I see the next coin from the giants of the ice age series will be the bear due out in October

[trp]

@ravenshunter merged with existing topic  

[Heirlooms]

On 27/09/2020 at 12:52, ravenshunter said:

I see the next coin from the giants of the ice age series will be the bear due out in October

Definitely better than the sabertooth Tiger but would like to see it in the flesh