Coin of the Year Award

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.

The COTY was awarded for the first time in 1984, when coins issued in 1982 were assessed.

Awards are given in ten categories, and three coins are selected in each category:

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