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The Coin of the Year Award (COTY) is an awards program founded and annually conducted by the American publisher Krause Publications of Iola, Wisconsin, and directed at the coin producing industry. Awards are given for numismatic design, artistic vision and craftsmanship. A panel of international judges chooses the coins from those issued two years prior to the year of the award.
Video Coin of the Year Award
History
The COTY was awarded for the first time in 1984, when coins issued in 1982 were assessed.
Maps Coin of the Year Award
Categories
Awards are given in ten categories, and three coins are selected in each category:
- Most Historically Significant: Coins which commemorate events, institutions, physical entities, or individual which are deemed to be most important in terms of the historical heritage of a people or mankind.
- Best Contemporary Event: Coins which commemorate events, institutions physical entities, or individuals which are deemed to be most important in terms of current or recent events influencing a people or mankind.
- Best Gold: Coins fabricated of GOLD, Platinum, Palladium, or another exotic precious metal which have all-around aesthetic and commercial appeal.
- Best Silver: Coins fabricated of silver which have all-around aesthetic and commercial appeal.
- Best Crown: Coins which have all-around aesthetic and commercial appeal, and have a minimum diameter of 33mm..
- Best Trade Circulating monetary unit coins which are made of non-precious metals, possess all-around aesthetic and commercial appeal.
- Most Popular: Coins with commercial sales and artistic caliber which appeals to the international general public.
- Most Artistic: Coins selected solely on the value of their artistic merit.
- Most Innovative Coinage Concept: Coins which contain pioneering metallic alloys, non-typical coinage materials, planchet shapes, thickness, sizes, themes, distribution methods or other innovations.
- Most Inspirational Coin: Coins featuring themes, events, institutions, physical entities, or individuals that represent peace, freedom, and human rights.
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List of award winners
2014 (coins minted in 2012)
2013 (coins minted in 2011)
2012 (coins minted in 2010)
2011 (coins minted in 2009)
2010 (coins minted in 2008)
2009 (coins minted in 2007)
2008 (coins minted in 2006)
2007 (coins minted in 2005)
2006 (coins minted in 2004)
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2002 (coins minted in 2000)
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2000 (coins minted in 1998)
1999 (coins minted in 1997)
1998 (coins minted in 1996)
1997 (coins minted in 1995)
1996 (coins minted in 1994)
1995 (coins minted in 1993)
1994 (coins minted in 1992)
1993 (coins minted in 1991)
1992 (coins minted in 1990)
1991 (coins minted in 1989)
1990 (coins minted in 1988)
1989 (coins minted in 1987)
1988 (coins minted in 1986)
1987 (coins minted in 1985)
1986 (coins minted in 1984)
1985 (coins minted in 1983)
1984 (coins minted in 1982)
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References
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