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  • Ice Age giant: mostly vegetarian
  • Fourth design: of the Ice Age series
  • Fine gold: fineness 999.9/1000
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Cave bear

People still saw them.A cave bear in gold.

1 ounce of gold, in proof quality, issuing country Ghana.

Cave bear on 1 ounce of gold, reverse, image
1 ounce of gold, obverse with issuing country Ghana, image

Cave bear on 1 ounce of gold, reverse, image

1 ounce of gold, in proof quality, issuing country Ghana.

On the cave wall

In the Chauvet Cave there are about 300 hollows where bears hibernated.

Along with more than 3,700 cave bear bones and thousands of scratch marks on the walls.

In the Chauvet Cave, mammoths, big cats, rhinoceroses and bears are among the most frequent animal images. People first entered the cave about 36,500 years ago.

Source: Grotte Chauvet

The timeline

From the Devonian to the last Ice Age

Each animal stands in its geological period. The sections show the order, not the duration.

  1. Devonian

    about 420 to 359 million years ago

    • Dunkleo­steus, image of the coinDunkleo­steusArmoured fish
  2. Carboniferous

    about 359 to 299 million years ago

  3. Permian

    about 299 to 252 million years ago

  4. Triassic

    about 252 to 201 million years ago

    • Archosaurs, image of the coinArchosaursAnimal group
    • Plateo­saurus, image of the coinPlateo­saurusDinosaur
  5. Jurassic

    about 201 to 143 million years ago

    • Plesio­saurus, image of the coinPlesio­saurusMarine reptile
    • Stego­saurus, image of the coinStego­saurusDinosaur
    • Brachio­saurus, image of the coinBrachio­saurusDinosaur
    • Archaeo­pteryx, image of the coinArchaeo­pteryxEarly bird
  6. Cretaceous

    about 143 to 66 million years ago

    • Utahraptor, image of the coinUtahraptorDinosaur
    • Australo­venator, image of the coinAustralo­venatorDinosaur
    • Pteranodon, image of the coinPteranodonPterosaur
    • Parasauro­lophus, image of the coinParasauro­lophusDinosaur
    • Velociraptor, image of the coinVelociraptorDinosaur
    • Carnotaurus, image of the coinCarnotaurusDinosaur
    • Quetzal­coatlus, image of the coinQuetzal­coatlusPterosaur
    • Triceratops, image of the coinTriceratopsDinosaur
    • T. rex, image of the coinT. rexDinosaur
    • The age of the dinosaurs ends 66 million years ago.
  7. Palaeogene

    66 to about 23 million years ago

    • Titanoboa, image of the coinTitanoboaSnake
  8. Neogene

    about 23 to 2.6 million years ago

    • Megalodon, image of the coinMegalodonShark
    • The human genus begins about 2.8 million years ago.
  9. Pleistocene

    about 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago

    • Cave bear, image of the coinCave bearMammal
    • Giganto­pithecus, image of the coinGiganto­pithecusGreat ape
    • Giant deer, image of the coinGiant deerMammal
    • Cave lion, image of the coinCave lionMammal
    • Woolly rhinoceros, image of the coinWoolly rhinocerosMammal
    • Mammoth, image of the coinMammothMammal
    • Sabre-toothed cat, image of the coinSabre-toothed catMammal
    • Aurochs, image of the coinAurochsMammal
    • Homo sapiens has existed for about 300,000 years.
    • People enter the Chauvet Cave about 36,500 years ago.

Not to scale. Dates according to the International Commission on Stratigraphy, rounded.

The coin

Giants of the Ice Age

The series from Ghana began in 2019 with the woolly mammoth and the giant deer.

The reverse shows the animal in its landscape, and a frieze of animals runs around the rim. The obverse bears the coat of arms of Ghana.

At a glance

Issuing country
Ghana
Face value
500 cedis
Metal
gold
Weight
1 ounce
Diameter
38.6 mm
Quality
Proof
Fineness
999.9/1,000
Mintage
1,000 pieces
Year
2020

People saw them and painted them on the walls.

1 Unze Goldmünze Giganten der Eiszeit – Höhlenbär 2020 PP im Etui

Diese beeindruckende Serie widmet sich in gebührendem Respekt den Bestien, auf die einst sogar noch unsere Vorfahren Jagd machten – oder vielleicht gar selbst zur Beute wurden! Knochen und Höhlenmalereien regten die Fantasie der Designer an, das Andenken an die Giganten der Eiszeit zu bewahren. Das Ergebnis ist eine Serie mit sechs prähistorischen Tieren, vor einer eiszeitlichen Landschaft malerisch in Szene gesetzt. 

Das 4. Motiv erinnert an den einst mit Sicherheit gefürchteten Höhlenbären, dessen Namen bereits auf den Fundort der Knochen verweist. Er wurde bis zu 3,5 Meter lang und maß bis zur Schulter 1,7 Meter – weitaus größer als seine heutigen lebenden Verwandten die Braunbären. Um sein Revier mit Duftstoffen zu markieren, rieb er sich gerne an Höhlenwänden, sodass diese Spuren noch heute im Harz zu erkennen sind. Der sich vorwiegend vegetarisch ernährende Bär starb vor 40.000 allmählich aus. Inwiefern der Klimawechsel oder das Auftreten des Menschen hierbei eine Rolle spielte, ist stark unter Paläontologen umstritten. 

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