Author: Donald Scarinci
Austria’s Supernova Coin Wins Most Artistic at 2024 COTY Awards
Austria’s Munze Osterreich won the Most Artistic category for the Coin of the Year (COTY) awards for 2024-dated coins. The 20 Euro silver Supernova coin (KM3378) is the first in the mint’s “The Beauty of the Universe” series. The coin features a waved edge and a convex reverse, which represents the explosion of a supernova. […]
April 2, 2026
Austria’s Edaphon Living Soil Coin Wins Best Bi-Metallic at COTY 2024
Austria’s Munze Osterreich took home top honors in the Best Bi-Metallic Coin category in the Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards for coins dated 2024. The winning 25 Euro, Edaphon Living Soil coin (KM#3379), celebrates the diverse living organisms in soil and is part of Austria’s annual niobium and silver coin series. The word “Edaphon” […]
April 2, 2026
Austria’s Salt Mining Coin Wins Most Historically Significant Coin at 2024 COTY Awards
Austria’s 20 Euro “Salt Mining – The White Gold of Hallstatt” (KM#3377) was named the Most Historically Significant Coin for the Coin of the Year (COTY) awards for 2024-dated coins. It is the first of three coins in the Munze Osterreich’s The White Gold of Hallstatt series. The coin depicts the Hallstatt salt mine, which […]
April 2, 2026
France Wins Best Contemporary Coin at COTY 2024 for Notre-Dame Restoration
The Monnaie de Paris took home top honors in the Coin of the Year Awards’ (COTY) Best Contemporary Coin category for 2024-dated coins. The winning coin — 10 Euro, Notre-Dame Restoration (KM#3453) — celebrates the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral after five years of restoration and is part of the French Excellence collection. Dating […]
April 2, 2026
France’s Notre-Dame Microchip Coin Named Most Innovative at COTY 2024
France’s Notre-Dame de Paris coin (KM#3462) was named Most Innovative in the Coin of the Year (COTY) awards for 2024-dated coins. The 25 EURO coin features a microchip which, when scanned from a mobile phone, enables the owner to receive a digital certificate of ownership. The obverse depicts the rebuilding of the Notre-Dame cathedral. The […]
April 2, 2026
Malta’s Honey Bee Wins Best Crown at the 2024 Coin of the Year Awards
The Central Bank of Malta’s “Maltese Honey Bee” coin (KM#273) won the Best Crown Coin category at the Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards for 2024-dated coins. The coin is a reimagination of its first collector coin, which also celebrated the Maltese Islands’ native honeybee. The honeybee (Apis mellifera ruttneri) plays a crucial role in […]
April 2, 2026
France Wins Best Circulating Coin for Marie Curie Redesign
The Monnaie de Paris took home top honors in the Best Circulating Coin category of the Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards for 2024-dated coins. The coin honors Marie Curie (KM#3325) and is part of the mint’s “Exceptional Women” series. The winning coin was designed by chief engraver Joaquin Jimenez. The obverse features a portrait […]
April 2, 2026
Latvia’s Quirky Cabbage Coin Wins Best Silver Coin at 2024 COTY Awards
The Bank of Latvia’s innovative “Cabbage” coin (KM#237) won the Best Silver Coin for Coin of the Year Awards (COTY) for 2024-dated coins. The uniquely shaped coin mimics the shape of a head of cabbage. In Latvia, cabbage is a vegetable that holds significant symbolic meaning, representing health, fertility and prosperity. Cabbage reached the territory […]
April 2, 2026
Ukraine Honors Its Heroes: Thank Our Medical Workers Coin Wins Most Inspirational at COTY 2024
Ukraine has won the Krause Coin of the Year (COTY) Most Inspirational award for its powerful 2024 5 Hryven coin honoring medical workers — part of the broader Country of Superheroes series. The coin’s obverse features a strip of bandage with blood rendered in red enamel, a striking and immediate image of injury and sacrifice. […]
April 2, 2026
Vatican Makes History with Best Gold Coin COTY Win for 2024 War & Peace
The Vatican won the Best Gold Coin category for the Coin of the Year (COTY) awards for 2024-dated coins. This is the first time the Vatican won a COTY category and the first time a Vatican coin was awarded Coin of the Year. As the name suggests, the winning 50 EURO gold coin centers on […]
April 2, 2026