Royal Canadian Mint’s Glow-in-the-Dark Dinosaur Coin Wins Award for Innovation

The Royal Canadian Mint announced that its 2012 25-cent face value Prehistoric Animals collector coin, which features a dinosaur and glows in the dark, won the Krause Publications 2014 Coin of the Year award in the Most Innovative Coin category.

As quoted in the press release:

A global phenomenon when it launched in March 2012, the 2012 25-cent Prehistoric Animals – Pachyrhinosaurus Lakustai collector coin was the world’s first-ever photo-luminescent coin. Based on the discovery of a new species of dinosaur from a fossil found in the province of Alberta, a painted image of a living Pachyrhinosaurus Lakustai on a cupronickel coin cleverly disguised the skeleton of this prehistoric animal which brightly glowed only once the coin was placed in darkness. Subsequent releases in this “glow-in-the-dark” series have all rapidly sold out.

Click here to read the full press release from the Royal Canadian Mint.