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.
[1][2] Awards are given for numismatic design, artistic vision and craftsmanship.
[3] The COTY was awarded for the first time in 1984, in which coins issued in 1982 were assessed.
[5] 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.
[6] Category winners are selected in the first round of voting and Coin of the Year in the second round, chosen from the category winners.