Category: Numismatics
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
Dr. Dean Kotlowski Joins CCAC as New Historian
Dr. Dean Kotlowski is the newest member of the Citizens Coinage Advisory Committee (CCAC). A professor of History at Salisbury University in Salisbury, Maryland, Kotlowski will serve as the CCAC’s historian for the next four years. Established in 2003, the CCAC advises the Secretary of the Treasury on proposed themes or designs for circulating coinage, bullion coinage, Congressional […]
March 4, 2019
Joseph Menna Named U.S. Mint’s Chief Engraver
The U.S. Mint recently named Joseph Menna as its Chief Engraver. Menna, who has worked for the Mint for 14 years, is a talented artist, his work earning him numerous Krause Publications’ Coin of the Year awards in various categories. He will now oversee the design development aspects of the work created by the Mint’s sculptor engravers, as […]
February 25, 2019
Britain Wins “Best Crown” for 2015 dated COTY
Britain’s Winston Churchill 2015 Brilliant Uncirculated £5 (KM-1298) coin won “Best Crown” for coins dated that year in the Krause Coin of the Year Awards. The Royal Mint released the coin to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Churchill’s death. With the release of the 2015 coin, Churchill is the first statesman (non-monarch) to be featured […]
January 28, 2019
Austria Wins Best Gold Coin dated 2015
Austria’s 100 euro Capercaille (KM#3246) was named the Best Gold Coin in the Krause Coin of the Year Awards for coins dated 2015. The stunning coin is part of the Austrian Mint’s Wildlife in our Sights series, which celebrates the diversity of Europe’s native wildlife as well as the sustainable management of their habitats. The […]
January 21, 2019
Canada Wins Most Historically Significant 2015 dated Coin
Canada took home the honors for the most historically significant coin in the Krause Coin of the Year Awards for coins dated 2015. The $20 silver Canada, In Flanders Field, KM#1860 coin commemorates the 100th anniversary of the poem “In Flanders Fields” by Lt. Col. John McCrae. McCrae wrote the iconic poem following the Second […]
January 7, 2019
U.S. Mint to Produce $1 American Innovation Coins
The United States Mint launched the first coin pursuant to the American Innovation $1 Coin Act (H.R. 770). This is the beginning of a 14-year dollar coin series that recognizes American innovation, commemorating innovation and innovators from each state, each U.S. territory, and the District of Columbia. American Innovation $1 Coin ActThe law provides that […]
December 11, 2018
Latvia’s “National Entrepreneur” Wins Most Artistic 2016 Dated COTY
The Republic of Latvia’s 5 Euro silver “National Entrepreneur” was named the most artistic coin in the Krause Coin of the Year Awards for coins dated 2016. The multi-faceted coin features a QR code, highlighting that it is possible to combine the art of the coin with modern technology. The coin was designed by Paulis […]
November 26, 2018
Australia’s Northern Sky Cassiopeia Wins 2016 Dated COTY “Best Silver Coin”
Australia won the Best Silver Coin in the Krause Coin of the Year Awards for its 2016 $5 silver “Northern Sky Cassiopeia” dome-shaped coin. It is the first of a three-coin series featuring the Northern Sky constellations. It was designed by B. King. The Australia Mint’s previously issued Southern Sky series of coins inspired the United States […]
November 12, 2018
France’s Gold Joan of Arc Wins 2016 dated COTY “Most Historically Significant Coin”
In a somewhat surprising selection, the Krause Coin of the Year judges selected France’s Joan of Arc coin as the “Most Historically Significant Coin.” The 200 Euro gold coin is the third issue in the multi-year Women of France series, which pays tribute to three important women of France each year. In 2016, the Women […]
November 5, 2018