NGC-Certified Ancient Coins Offered as Prizes for Groundbreaking Mobile Game

To celebrate more than 100,000 downloads in its soft launch, the new mobile video game EIGHTH ERA™ will award NGC-certified ancient coins as prizes to players who reach an advanced level and compete in tournament-style leaderboards. An announcement will be made in the Spring that the game will also offer limited-edition American Silver Eagles with special privy marks in collaboration with the United States Mint.

Free-to-play and available to download on iOS and Android devices, many of EIGHTH ERA’s major characters, levels of play, and rewards are inspired by historical coins. It was created by Nice Gang®, a gaming publisher and developer founded by entertainment, gaming, and collectibles veterans, including Mark Salzberg, Co-Founder of Certified Collectibles Group and Numismatic Guaranty Company.

“We now have launched our first limited-timed Era Vault event where players can win free historic coins, some 1,700 years old,” announced Jason Wasserman, a former 20-year executive at 20th Century Fox and The Walt Disney Studios who is Nice Gang’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer.

The two ancient coin types encapsulated by NGC offered as rewards are: a portrait coin of the Roman Emperor Constantine I (A.D. 307-337) struck at the Roman city of Siscia, and a silver hemidrachm struck A.D. 780-793 in Tabaristan.

The famous emperor Constantine I — known to history as "the Great" — ruled the Roman Empire for three decades. He was undefeated in battle and was the first to make Christianity the official religion of the Roman world.

The silver coins of Tabaristan, a mountainous region along the Caspian Sea, were struck in the 8th century A.D. and show a royal portrait opposite two priests at a fire altar. Tabaristan was an oasis kingdom on the Silk Road where merchants rested their caravans after traversing scorching deserts to bring luxury goods from China to Constantinople.

“The partnership between NGC and Nice Gang is transformational for our team as it allows us to connect with a large audience of gamers who are huge collectors in their own right, while introducing ancient coins into their collectibles world,” said David Vagi, NGC Ancients Director. “Everyone may not be able to travel to visit an ancient monument, but anyone can add an ancient coin to their collection and be transported back to lost worlds through their passion for collecting.”

Set 10,000 years in the future, EIGHTH ERA takes players on epic role-playing adventures through perilous past worlds to collect forgotten pieces of history and save the future from an evil supercomputer.

“EIGHTH ERA offers players addictive gameplay as well as physical collectible hero trophies shipped directly to your door,” explained Wasserman.

Working with the United States Mint, the game will also offer while supplies last this Spring the soon-to-be released, limited-edition American Silver Eagle bullion coins with an eagle-in-flight privy mark. Additional information about those coins will be announced in the coming weeks. Previous reward prizes included ASEs with the special star privy mark.

The game’s available rewards which can be won through in-game tournament-style leaderboards also include NGC-certified medallions that depict some of the game’s more than 50 playable action characters. New character medallions will be released monthly for players to win.

EIGHTH ERA is available worldwide in the App Store and Google Play.

For additional information about the game, future updates, and a free newsletter about the latest collectible “trophy” offering for game players, visit www.NiceGang.com.