Goblin Shark: Deepsea Monsters Series - 1oz .999 Silver Coin - 1$ usa 2026
 
Deepsea Monsters 2026 from Royal Krakow Mint is a series of five colored silver coins, each showing one animal from the bottom of the ocean. Every coin is struck from 1 oz of .999 fine silver.
 
None of the five was invented. They are real fish, living now, built for a place with crushing pressure, cold water, little or no light and long gaps between meals. The result is jaws that fire out of the head, bodies made of jelly, a lamp grown from a fin and a defense made of slime.
 
Each design is limited to 100 pieces worldwide. The obverse carries the American Silver Eagle design. The reverse shows one of the five monsters in full color.
 
The five Deepsea Monsters:
1. Blobfish
In 2013 the blobfish was voted the world’s ugliest animal, on the strength of one photograph: a pink, sagging face with a drooping nose and a frown. That photograph shows a dead fish. The blobfish lives 600 to 1,200 meters down off Australia and New Zealand, where the pressure is up to 120 times what we feel at the surface, and at that depth it looks like any other fish.
 
It has almost no muscle and no swim bladder. Its body is a jelly slightly lighter than seawater, so it hangs just above the seabed without spending energy and swallows whatever drifts past. The face everyone knows is what happens when a trawl net drags that body to the surface and the pressure holding it together is gone.
 
2. Anglerfish
Sunlight stops at about 1,000 meters. Below that, the female anglerfish carries the only light around: a spine from her back fin bent forward over her head, with a bulb at the tip full of glowing bacteria. She hangs still and moves the bulb. Whatever comes to look ends up inside a mouth of long teeth that fold inward to let prey in and lock to keep it there. Her stomach stretches enough to hold an animal bigger than she is.
 
The male is a fraction of her size and in many species cannot feed himself. He finds a female by smell, bites into her side and never lets go. His skin fuses with hers, their blood vessels join, and his eyes and organs waste away until only the part that produces sperm is left. One female has been found carrying eight males.
 
3. Goblin Shark
The goblin shark is the last survivor of a family that goes back about 125 million years. Japanese fishermen called it tenguzame, after the long-nosed goblin of their folklore, and the name stuck. It grows to more than three meters, its skin is thin enough that the blood shows through and turns it pink, and the flat blade of a snout above its mouth is covered in sensors that pick up the electric field of a living animal in the dark.
 
It swims slowly. The jaws do the hunting. When prey comes within range, both jaws shoot forward out of the head on stretched ligaments at around three meters per second, close on the target with rows of nail-shaped teeth, and pull back into place.
 
4. Hagfish
The hagfish has a skull and no jaws, a few traces of a spine, four hearts and eyes that barely work. Fossils show it has changed little in 300 million years. It finds dead and dying animals on the seabed by smell, enters through the mouth, the gills or a wound, and eats the carcass from the inside, rasping at the flesh with two rows of horn teeth on its tongue.
 
When something bites a hagfish, glands along its body release mucus and coiled threads that swell in seawater into liters of slime in under half a second. The slime clogs the attacker’s gills and it lets go. The hagfish then ties its own body in a knot and slides the knot from head to tail to wipe itself clean. In 2017 a truck carrying live hagfish overturned on a highway in Oregon, and the slime covered the road and the cars on it.
 
5. Red-Lipped Batfish
The red-lipped batfish lives on the sandy seabed around the Galápagos Islands and is bad at swimming. It walks. Its side and belly fins have turned into four stiff legs, and it moves across the bottom on them like a frog that never learned to jump.
Its mouth is bright red, as if painted with lipstick, and nobody is certain why; the leading idea is that the color helps batfish recognize each other at spawning time. A horn sticks out above the snout, and under it sits a small lure that the fish pushes out to draw shrimp and small fish close enough to swallow.
 
Each coin is housed in a protective capsule and comes with a Certificate of Authenticity that confirms its purity, weight and limited mintage.
 
Collect one Deepsea Monster or all five. Most of the deep ocean has never been seen by a person, and these five are part of what lives there.
 
Key Features:
🔹 Five designs – One coin for each animal: Blobfish, Anglerfish, Goblin Shark, Hagfish and Red-Lipped Batfish.
🔹 Limited mintage – Only 100 coins of each design worldwide.
🔹 Premium purity – 1 oz of .999 fine silver in BU (Brilliant Uncirculated) quality.
🔹 Colored finish – Full-color artwork on the reverse, American Silver Eagle on the obverse.
🔹 Official Certificate of Authenticity – Confirms weight, purity and edition number.