Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Glow-in-the-dark coin
Glow-in-the-dark coin
The Royal Canadian Mint's collectible coin that features a dinosaur whose skeleton shines at night from beneath its scaly hide. It's the world's first coin to have two different images on the same face. Made of cupronickel, the coin has a face value of 25 cents but is much larger than a regular Canuck quarter. The coin shows an artist's rendering of Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai, a 4-ton, 26-foot dinosaur discovered in Alberta in 1972. It's the first in a four-coin series of photo-luminescent prehistoric creatures.
The skeleton image is best seen after the coin is exposed to sunlight, or other light source for 30-60 seconds.
- Part of Speech: noun
- Synonym(s):
- Blossary:
- Industry/Domain: Financial services
- Category: World currencies
- Company:
- Product:
- Acronym-Abbreviation:
Other Languages:
Member comments
Terms in the News
Featured Terms
Lady Antebellum
Lady Antebellum is an American country band that is composed of three individuals: Charles Kelly, Dave Haywood, and Hilary Scott. Both Kelly and Scott ...
Contributor
Featured blossaries
anton.chausovskyy
0
Terms
25
Blossaries
4
Followers
Top places to visit before you die
Browers Terms By Category
- Architecture(556)
- Interior design(194)
- Graphic design(194)
- Landscape design(94)
- Industrial design(20)
- Application design(17)
Design(1075) Terms
- General seafood(50)
- Shellfish(1)
Seafood(51) Terms
- Cultural anthropology(1621)
- Physical anthropology(599)
- Mythology(231)
- Applied anthropology(11)
- Archaeology(6)
- Ethnology(2)
Anthropology(2472) Terms
- Body language(129)
- Corporate communications(66)
- Oral communication(29)
- Technical writing(13)
- Postal communication(8)
- Written communication(6)
Communication(251) Terms
- Printers(127)
- Fax machines(71)
- Copiers(48)
- Office supplies(22)
- Scanners(9)
- Projectors(3)