Yesterday (December 11), the jurists for the 2017 COTY (Coin of the Year) Award wrapped up their first round of voting. Inaugurated in 1984 by Krause Publications’ World Coin News, the COTY Awards have grown to international prestige. Today the competition is co-sponsored by World Coin News, the annual World Money Fair, and the Journal of East Asian Numismatics.

The first round of balloting, which was scheduled to conclude yesterday, selected 10 category winners from among the 98 nominees. The categories for this year’s awards, which are for coins dated 2015, are:

Most Artistic Coin

Best Bimetallic Coin

Best Circulating Coin

Best Contemporary-Event Coin

Best Crown Coin

Best Gold Coin

Best Silver Coin

Most Historically Significant Coin

Most Innovative Coin

Most Inspirational Coin

World Mint News Blog will report on the category winners as soon as they’re announced. Meanwhile, the next round of balloting will soon be underway to will select the overall COTY Award from among the 10 categories. The winner will be announced at the World Money Fair in Berlin, Germany, on February 4.

The complete list of nominees, with links to image galleries, can be found on NumismaticNews.net. While we wait for Krause’s announcement of the category winners, here are World Mint News Blog’s favorites. (For those who don’t know, “KM” in the captions stands for “Krause-Mishler,” the numbering system used in Krause’s Standard Catalog of World Coins.)

Leave a comment and let us know which entries you favor!

Most Artistic Coin

Best Bimetallic Coin

Best Circulating Coin







Best Contemporary-Event Coin

Best Crown Coin

Best Gold Coin

Best Silver Coin

Most Historically Significant Coin

Most Innovative Coin

Most Inspirational Coin

The previous COTY Award for overall best coin, announced at the World Money Fair in Berlin last February, was the U.S. Mint’s half-dollar Baseball Hall of Fame commemorative. ❑