North America's own Columbian Mammoth makes its VERY FIRST appearance on a legal tender coin in this full color depiction on a one troy ounce pure silver with the ultra low mintage limit of just 750!

America’s largest mammoth species makes a rare appearance on a coin. How rare? Our research indicates that this is the first-ever appearance of the Columbian Mammoth on a legal tender coin or, for that matter, a medal. Here's a unique opportunity to be an early adopter and one of the lucky few to enjoy a Columbian Mammoth in your numismatic zoo!

The Columbian Mammoth ranged across the United States and into Mexico during the last Ice Age, with its territory to the south of the woolly mammoth. The Columbian Mammoth was larger than its woolly cousin, standing 13 feet high, with tusks more up to 16 feet long, with about ten feet span between them!

Fossil evidence indicates that Paleoindians hunted Columbian Mammoths. Indeed, overhunting is believed to be one of the causes for its extinction, along with climate change. This monstrous beast shared its long disappeared Pleistocene habitat with other now-extinct mammals that included sabertooth tigers like Smilodon, giant ground sloths, dire wolves, the camel Camelops, mastodons, ice age horses, and bison antiquus. It did not live in Arctic Canada or Alaska, which was inhabited by woolly mammoths. Fossils of woolly and Columbian mammoths have been found in the same place in a few areas of North America where their ranges overlapped, as have hybrids of the two.

Mammoth Fun Facts
• The Columbian Mammoth was larger than the woolly mammoth, but less hairy, as it lived in warmer climes further south.
• Columbian Mammoths were also significantly larger than North American mastodons.
• The Columbian Mammoth's entire range lay within North America, almost completely in the United States and Mexico.
• They were closely related to woolly Mammoths, and in fact the two interbred in North America.
• The hybrids of the Columbian and woolly Mammoths were previously thought to be a separate species, named Mammuthus jeffersonii, after President Thomas Jefferson.
• A relict population of Columbian Mammoths evolved on the California Channel Islands, including Catalina Island, into a species of pygmy mammoths.
• These decreased in size over thousands of years to half the size of the Columbian Mammoth, due to the limited food available on the islands’ small areas, a process known as island dwarfism.

Obverse
A full color portrait of a large male Columbian Mammoth on a rampage. It is surrounded by a border of fossils, including a trilobite, an ammonite, and a tyrannosaurus rex skull and skeleton. The legend MAMMOTH defines the theme.

Reverse
His Majesty, King Charles III, in profile effigy facing left. This portrait was executed by the engraver Jody Clark. The legend CHARLES III, the date of issue and denomination also appear, while the legend 1 OZ 999 SILVER guarantees the weight and purity.

Packaging
The coin is encapsulated inside a luxurious clamshell-style presentation case, lined with black velvet and satin, and protected by a full color outer cardboard box. An individually-numbered certificate of authenticity is included.

The image of the back side of the certificate is a mint-supplied image intended for general reference only. Serial number on image is NOT indicative of the serial number you will receive!