4726) American Numismatic Association (ANA) 2026 Coin of the Year (COTY) Award Winners, United States of America (USA): Date/Year of Coin Awards: 27.08.2026:
To view a few posts on previous COTY and Coin Constellation (Russia) winners & IBNS Winners, please visit the following links:
6) Viola Desmond, Civil Rights Activist & the first Canadian woman to feature on a circulation Banknote: A $10 Polymer vertically oriented Banknote issued by Bank of Canada on 19.11.2018 is the 2018 IBNS Banknote of the Year
American Numismatic
Association (ANA) Coin of the Year Awards:
The American Numismatic
Association (ANA) Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards are an internationally
recognised competition that honours outstanding coin design and innovation.
Presented by World Coin News and sponsored by The Journal of East Asian Numismatics, Numismatic Guaranty Company, and the WFM, the Coin of the Year award competition recognises outstanding coin design and innovation worldwide.
The COTY Nominating Committee selected 100 finalists (10 coins in 10 categories) from a pool of nearly 600 coins dated 2025. An international panel of judges then selected the top coin in each category.
The awards are presented
annually by Krause Publications and are conducted by an international panel of
judges.
The COTY program encourages
excellence in numismatic design and craftsmanship, with categories including
Best Bi-metallic, Best Contemporary Event, Best Crown, Best Circulating, Best
Gold, Best Silver, Most Popular, Most Artistic, Most Historically Significant,
and Most Innovative.
The awards ceremony is a highlight of the ANA's World's Fair of Money, where the winning coins are celebrated and recognised for their artistic and historical significance.
The Coin’s Obverse features the serpentine Great Wall in a mountainous landscape, and the Reverse depicts a Chinese dragon.
Designed by engraver Wang Hu Ming, the dragon’s appearance was inspired by the Gilded Dragon of the Tang Dynasty and the Nine Dragon Wall in Beijing’s Forbidden City.
The winners in each category are:
Most Historically
Significant Coin—Austria:
Silver 20 Euro, “Beliefs and Rituals—White Gold of Hallstatt”
Base-metal 2 Euro, “Notre-Dame”
Best Gold Coin—United States of America:
Gold $100, “American
Liberty”
Best Silver Coin—Austria:
Silver 20 Euro, “Einstein
Ring”
Best Crown Coin—China:
Silver 10 yuan, “Chinese
Dragon”
Best Circulating Coin—Hungary:
Base-metal 200 forint,
“Hungarian Academy of Sciences Commemorative Circulation Coin”
Silver-niobium 25 Euro,
“Digitalisation”
Most Artistic Coin—France
Silver 10 Euro, “El
Dorado—The Sower”
Silver 10 Euro, “90 Years of
Lancôme”
Nickel silver 5 hryvnias,
“Let’s Hold the Line!”
To view a few posts on previous COTY and Coin Constellation (Russia) winners & IBNS Winners, please visit the following links:
6) Viola Desmond, Civil Rights Activist & the first Canadian woman to feature on a circulation Banknote: A $10 Polymer vertically oriented Banknote issued by Bank of Canada on 19.11.2018 is the 2018 IBNS Banknote of the Year
