Buy Giants of the Ice Age Silver Coins – Pleistocene Megafauna in Fine Silver
The Giants of the Ice Age silver series is CelticGold's largest collection of prehistoric-themed silver coins, with 13 products spanning the great megafauna of the last Ice Age (c. 115,000–11,700 years ago): woolly mammoths, woolly rhinoceros, sabre-toothed tigers (Smilodon), cave bears, giant ground sloths and other Pleistocene giants that shared the Earth with early modern humans.
The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) – the most iconic Ice Age animal – survived in isolated populations on Siberia's Wrangel Island until approximately 4,000 years ago, contemporaneous with the construction of the Great Pyramid of Giza. Their extraordinarily well-preserved permafrost remains have provided intact DNA for active cloning and de-extinction research. The mammoth coins in this series are rendered with exceptional scientific accuracy, typically based on the best-preserved specimens and cave art records.
