Tag: Silver Coin
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
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
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
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’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