Month: July 2024
Austrian Mint’s “Extraterrestrial Life” Named 2022-dated Best Bimetallic Coin
The Austrian Mint took home top honors in the Best Bimetallic Coin category in the Coin of the Year Awards for 2022-dated coins. The silver-niobium 25 euro, entitled“Extraterrestrial Life,” explores the question: Is there anybody out there or is all life in the universe limited to our tiny “third rock from the sun?” The existence […]
July 30, 2024
Australia’s Honeybee Coin Named 2022-dated “Best Circulating Coin“
The Royal Australian Mint won the Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards’ “Best Circulating Coin” category for 2022-dated coins. The winning $2 Honeybee coin marks the bicentenary of Australia’s honeybee industry. Honeybees were introduced to Australia by early European settlers, and the country is now home to 530,000 managed honeybee colonies. According to the Royal Australian Mint, the […]
July 22, 2024
Greece’s The Antikythera Mechanism 2022 10 Euro Wins “Best Crown”
The National Mint of Greece won the Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards’ “Best Crown Coin” category for 2022-dated coins. The 10 Euro winning coin honors the Antikythera Mechanism, a piece of ancient Greek technology that has been described as the world’s oldest analogue computer. The Antikythera mechanism was recovered from a shipwreck found in […]
July 18, 2024
South Africa’s The Lion Named Best Gold Coin for 2022-Dated Coin
The South African Mint captured the “Best Gold Coin” category in the Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards for coins dated 2022. The 50 Rand, 1 ounce gold coin features a striking image of a lion and is the second animal theme to be released in the second series of the South African Mint’s “Big […]
July 7, 2024
2022-dated UK 50 Years of Pride Wins Best Contemporary Event
The United Kingdom’s Royal Mint won the Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards’ “Best Contemporary Event Coin” category for 2022-dated coins. The award-winning coin, which celebrates the 50th Anniversary of Pride, is the Royal Mint’s first ever coin celebrating Britain’s LGBTQ+ community. The 50 pence coin was developed in collaboration with Pride in London. It was […]
July 1, 2024