Month: April 2019
Canada Wins Best Crown for COTY dated 2014
Canada’s 20-dollar “Maple Canopy—Autumn Allure”(KM#1759) silver coin won the “Best Crown” category for coins dated 2014 in the Krause Coin of the Year Awards presented at the World Money Show in Berlin in 2016. The award-winning coin was the fourth and final issue from the Royal Canadian Mint’s Maple Canopy series of silver coins. The […]
April 29, 2019
Great Britain Wins Best Circulating Coin for 2014 dated COTY
Great Britain won “Best Circulating” Coin dated 2014 in the Krause Coin of the Year Awards for its bimetallic 2-pound featuring the iconic depiction of Lord Kitchener on a World War I recruiting poster (KM# 1279). This was the first coin in a five-year series marking the outbreak of the First World War. The coins series depicts the course […]
April 22, 2019
Germany Wins “Most Historically Significant Coin” for 2014 dated COTY
Germany’s 10-euro silver coin commemorating the 300th anniversary of Daniel Fahrenheit’s invention of the mercury thermometer (KM#332 & #332a) was named the “Most Historically Significant Coin” in the Krause Coin of the Year Award for coins dated 2014. The award honors coins commemorating historic events that took place within the last 100 years. Engraved by Victor […]
April 15, 2019
Austria Gets Best Bi-Metallic for 2014 COTY
Austria’s 25-euro silver and niobium coin (KM#3227), which highlights the science of evolution, won best “Bi-Metallic Coin” for coins dated 2014 in the Krause Coin of the Year Awards. Part of the Austrian Mint’s Silver Niobium series, the stunning coin, which is dated 2014, is the first to feature different shades of niobium (blue and […]
April 8, 2019
Austria’s Fall of the Iron Curtain 20 Euro Named Best Silver 2014 dated COTY
Austria’s 20 Euro commemorating the fall of the Iron Curtain won the Krause Coin of the Year Award in the “Best Silver” category for coins dated 2014. The coin marks the 25th anniversary of the creation of a free, peaceful and united Europe. As described by the Austrian Mint, “Austria felt the presence of the […]
April 3, 2019