Buy Giants of the Ice Age Gold Coins – Pleistocene Megafauna in Fine Gold
The Giants of the Ice Age gold series celebrates the spectacular megafauna of the last Ice Age – woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, sabre-toothed tigers and cave bears – in precisely rendered gold coin form. With 1 gold product at CelticGold (the silver series is far more extensive with 13 products), this represents a rare specialist gold piece for collectors passionate about prehistoric natural history.
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) – tusks up to 4 metres long, a dense woolly coat adapted to Arctic temperatures – survived in isolated populations on Siberia's Wrangel Island until approximately 4,000 years ago, contemporaneous with the construction of Egypt's pyramids. Their extraordinarily well-preserved permafrost remains have provided DNA for active cloning research.
