Canada 2013 20 dollars KM-1474

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Steve Album sale 55, lot 3254

This specimen was lot 3254 in Steve Album Auction 55 (Santa Rosa, CA, May 2026), where it sold for $110. The catalog description[1] noted, "CANADA: Elizabeth II, 1952-2022, AR 20 dollars, 2013, Dinosaur Series - Bathygnathus Borealis, contains 1 troy ounce of pure silver, with COA and original Royal Canadian Mint case of issue, Proof. One of the first fossil discoveries to fascinate the Canadian imagination was Bathygnathus borealis, unearthed in 1845 near New London, Prince Edward Island. It wasn't until 1905 that the bone was correctly identified: a fragment of the upper jaw of a sphenacodontid, a member of the mammalian reptile family of pelycosaurs, or synapsids, animals that lived from the Late Pennsylvanian to the mid-Permian. Based on the similarities between the jaws, experts believe that the specimen actually comes from the famous dorsal-sailed Dimetrodon or a similar animal, although no fossil evidence of a dorsal sail has yet been found. If Bathygnathus resembled Dimetrodon, the large "sail" on its back is thought to have served to regulate body temperature." This denomination was heavily used for NCLT's in 2012, being issued as KM 1077, KM 1311, KM 1312, KM 1331, KM 1347, KM 1361, KM 1363, KM 1365, KM 1374, KM 1375, KM 1376, KM 1377, KM 1384, KM 1385, KM 1397, KM 1404, KM 1436, KM 1440, KM 1447, KM 1448, KM 1449, KM A1451, KM 1459, KM 1466, KM 1467, KM 1468, KM 1469, KM 1470, KM 1471, KM 1474 (shown here), KM 1479, KM 1484, KM 1507, KM 1510, KM 1511, KM 1512, KM 1513, KM 1522, KM 1526, KM 1527, KM 1531, KM 1548 and KM 1554.

Recorded mintage: 7,973.

Specification: 31.39 g, 0.999 fine silver, 38 mm diameter.

Catalog reference: KM-1474.

Sources:

  • Michael, Thomas, and Tracy L. Schmidt, Standard Catalog of World Coins, 2001-Date, 13th ed., Iola, WI: Krause Publications, 2018.
  • [1]Album, Stephen, Joseph Lang, Paul Montz, Michael Barry and Hanbing Feng, Auction 55, featuring Selections from the Swamperbob Gurney Collection of Cap & Ray 8 Reales, the Kenneth A. Bovenkamp Collection of Ottoman Coins and the 1914 Collection of World Coins, Santa Rosa, CA: Stephen Album Rare Coins, Inc., 2026.

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