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Joaquin Jimenez Wins 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award
Sculptor and coin designer Joaquin Jimenez received the 2019 Lifetime Achievement in Coin Design Award at the Thirty-Sixth Annual Coin of the Year Awards Ceremony, which was held in February. It was not his only big win — Jimenez designed the 50 Euro French Excellence – Guy Savoy 2017 silver coin that was named Coin […]
June 10, 2019
USA Half Dollar Baseball Hall of Fame Dated 2014 Gets COTY
The 2016 was the first time the United States won the Krause Coin of the Year award in twelve years. The United States Baseball Hall of Fame cupped clad half dollar, KM#576, won “most innovative” and was selected by the judges as the Coin of the Year for coins dated 2014. While private mints and […]
June 3, 2019
Easton Press “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens”
Easton Press produces the highest quality collectible and limited edition books. Its 21-volume set of Charles Dickens’ classics is no exception. The books are all beautifully bound in full genuine leather and accented with 22-karat gold. Charles Dickens is one of England’s most famous novelists and widely considered the greatest author of the Victorian era. As […]
May 28, 2019
Poland Wins Most Inspirational 2014 dated COTY
Poland’s 10 zlotych silver coin (Y.902) was named the “Most Inspirational Coin” in the 2016 Krause Coin of the Year Awards. The award-winning silver coin, dated 2014, honors the birth of Jan Karski, who smuggled Holocaust evidence to the Allies in a hollow key. The coin was one of three coins issued by the National […]
May 20, 2019
Latvia’s Five-Euro Baltic Way Coin Named Best Contemporary COTY 2014 Dated Coin
Latvia’s Baltic Way five-Euro coin (KM161) was named the “Best Contemporary” coin in Krause’s Coin of the Year Awards for coins dated 2014. The coin commemorates the 25th anniversary of the Baltic Way demonstration that brought together citizens of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. As described by the National Bank of Latvia: On 23 August 1989 […]
May 13, 2019
Austria’s Judith II Gold Coin Named Most Artistic COTY dated 2014
The Austrian Mint’s Judith II 50 Euro gold coin was named the “Most Artistic Coin” dated 2014 in Krause’s Coin of the Year Awards. The award-winning gold coin is the third in the Mint’s Klimt and his Women series, which honors the work of Gustav Klimt. A prior coin from the collection took home top […]
May 7, 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