2016 COIN OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

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The E-Sylum: Volume 19, Number 49, December 4, 2016, Article 20

2016 COIN OF THE YEAR NOMINEES

It's Coin of The Year time. An Numismatic News article published November 29, 2016 lists the nominees. -Editor

Australia and Canada have the most nominations in the annual Coin of the Year Award competition.

The first round of voting by an international panel of judges must work through a list of 10 categories in which 98 nominated coins must be considered.

All of the coins are dated or issued in 2015. The winners in each category will be recognized at the World Money Fair Feb. 4, 2017, in Berlin, Germany.

Monthly newspaper “World Coin News” has been giving COTY awards annually since 1984. The World Money Fair and the “Journal of East Asian Numismatics” now co-sponsor them.

The World Money Fair has been the home of these prestigious awards since 2008.

In the first round of balloting judges pick one winner in each of the 10 categories.

A second round of voting will select the Coin of the Year from the narrowed field of 10 category winners.

See the complete article (linked below) for a full list of nominees and links to images of the coins. Below are a few entries that caught my eye. -Editor

United States of America — High-Relief American Liberty

Finland — Lapland Reindeer

New Zealand — ANZAC ~ 100th Anniversary

Niue — Marco Polo

Poland — Ladislas of Varna

Austria — Spanish Riding School ~ 450th Anniversary

To read the complete article, see:
Coins vie for COTY honors (www.numismaticnews.net/article/coins-vie-coty-honors)

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