3286) Coin of the Year Awards: COTY - 2024; 10 category winners: United States Wins Coin of the Year (COTY):
The 2024 Coin of the Year awards ceremony hosted in conjunction with the American Numismatic Association's World’s Fair of Money® revealed the United States to be the winner of the prestigious title of Coin of the Year for 2023-dated coins.
Coin of the Year is an internationally conducted competition to recognize and encourage outstanding coin design and innovation worldwide. The 2024 competition marks 41 years.
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The Coin of the Year awards program is an internationally conducted competition sponsored by World Coin News, a division of Active Interest Media, to provide recognition of outstanding coin design and marketing efforts worldwide, and to stimulate other governments to greater participation in both areas.
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A special thank you to the 2024 Coin of the Year awards sponsors, The World’s Fair of Money® and The Journal of East Asian Numismatics.
The 2024 COTY awards program is sponsored by The World’s Fair of Money® and The Journal of East Asian Numismatics.
The United States is celebrating on home turf. Its American Liberty high relief $100 gold coin with the theme “Liberty Through Perseverance” was named the ultimate winner during a Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards ceremony held Aug. 8 in Rosemont, Ill., in partnership with the American Numismatic Association’s World’s Fair of Money® convention.
The Coin of the Year program is an internationally conducted competition presented by World Coin News to recognize and encourage outstanding coin design and innovation worldwide. The 2024 program, sponsored by the World’s Fair of Money® and The Journal of East Asian Numismatics, honors coins dated 2023 in 10 categories of competition as decided by an international panel of judges.
The COTY: “Liberty Through Perseverance”:
The United States Mint’s “Liberty Through Perseverance” American Liberty high relief $100 gold coin has been named the 2024 Coin of the Year.
The winning coin’s Obverse features a bristlecone pine, a species native to California, Nevada and Utah. It is thought to be one the oldest living organisms on Earth, living up to 5,000 years. Bristlecone pines grow in places where other plants cannot and are often the species that are first to repopulate the land after cataclysmic changes such as a lava run or glacial runoff. It was sculpted by Joseph Menna and designed by Elana Hagler.
The Reverse design depicts a young bald eagle standing on a rocky outcropping moments before it takes flight. Artistic credit goes to John P. McGraw.
The coin is the sixth released in the United States Mint’s American Liberty series.
Since its debut in 2015, the American Liberty Gold Coin and Silver Medal Program features coins and medals with modern depictions of allegorical "Liberty" on the Obverse.
The Reverse features complementary eagle designs. The designs represent what liberty means to individual Americans, or collectively as a nation.
It also won the Best Gold Coin category. When it came to vying with the other category winners for the top spot, competition was tight.
“The final ballot for Coin of the Year in 2024 was so evenly distributed that the top five coins were separated by a margin of just 10 votes,” said Tom Michael, COTY co-coordinator. “However, there was no mistaking the strength of the ‘Liberty Through Perseverance’ $100 gold coin’s gracious design, as it surged past the next closest competitor by half of that spread.”
The 2024 COTY selection process began with a record number of submissions brought forth during the worldwide call for nominations at the beginning of the year.
Nearly 600 coins were debated by the COTY Nominating Committee to select the COTY 100: 10 coins in 10 categories.
An international panel of judges voted to determine the winner of each category, from which the COTY champion was named during a final vote.
Following is a list of the 2024 Coin of the Year category winners.
1_Historical-Cameroon
MOST HISTORICALLY SIGNIFICANT COIN:
2_Contemporary-Ukraine
BEST CONTEMPORARY EVENT COIN:
Ukraine:10 Hryvnias, Silver: "The Courage to Be". UA
3_Gold-UnitedStates
BEST GOLD COIN
United States: 100 Dollars, Gold: "Liberty Through Perseverance".
4_Silver-Austria
BEST SILVER COIN
Austria: 20 Euro, Silver: "The Neutron Star".
5_Crown-Cook Islands
BEST CROWN COIN
Cook Islands: 10 Dollars, Silver: "Astrolabe".
6_Circulating-China
BEST CIRCULATING COIN
China: 5 Yuan, Brass: "Sheng Role – Chinese Peking Opera Art".
7_BiMetallic-Austria
BEST BI-METALLIC COIN
Austria: 25 Euro, Silver-Niobium: "Global Heating".
8_Artistic-Latvia
MOST ARTISTIC COIN
Latvia: 5 Euro, Silver: "Riga Fashion".
9_Innovative-France
MOST INNOVATIVE COIN
France: 200 Euro, Gold: "Pierre Hermé"
10)_Inspirational-Canada
MOST INSPIRATIONAL COIN
Canada:: 50 Dollars, Silver: Allegory of Peace
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