To celebrate more than 100,000 downloads in its soft launch, the video game EIGHTH ERA will award NGC-certified ancient coins as prizes. Free to play and available on iOS and Android, the game is set 10,000 years in the future and takes players on epic role-playing adventures through past worlds to collect forgotten pieces of history and save the future from an evil supercomputer.
“We now have launched our first limited-time Era Vault event where players can win free historic coins, some 1,700 years old,” announced Jason Wasserman, cofounder and chief executive officer of Nice Gang, the gaming developer for EIGHTH ERA.
The two coin types that players can now win include a portrait coin of 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, a mountainous region along the Caspian Sea that served as a resting place on the Silk Road. To win these historic prizes, players must reach an advanced level and compete in tournament-style leaderboards.
“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,” says David Vagi, NGC Ancients director.
This spring, the game is partnering with the United States Mint to also offer soon-to-be released, limited-edition silver American Eagle bullion coins with an eagle-in-flight privy mark. (Previous prizes include American Eagles with a special star privy mark.) Also among the game’s available rewards are NGC-certified medallions that depict some of the game’s characters. New character medallions will be released monthly for players to win.
For more information about the game and future updates, visit Nice Gang’s website.