Coin of the Year Award

The Coin of the Year Award (COTY) is an awards program founded and annually conducted by the American publisher Krause Publications of Iola, Wisconsin, and directed at the coin producing industry. Awards are given for numismatic design, artistic vision and craftsmanship. A panel of international judges chooses the coins from those issued two years prior to the year of the award.
About.
The COTY was awarded for the first time in 1984, in which coins issued in 1982 were assessed. A panel of judges chooses ten coins to be nominees for each of ten categories. These nominees will then be reviewed by an international panel of judges who are numismatic experts, journalist, authors, coin designers, and mint, bank and museum officials. Category winners are selected in the first round of voting and Coin of the Year in the second round, chosen from the category winners.
Categories.
Awards are currently given in ten categories. When the awards were first started, there were six categories. Five categories have since been added with one dropped.
List of award winners.
2019 (minted in 2017).
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2018 (minted in 2016).
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2017 (minted in 2015).
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2016 (minted in 2014).
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2015 (minted in 2013).
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2014 (minted in 2012).
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2013 (minted in 2011).
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2012 (minted in 2010).
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