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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.

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