COTY 2023 Award Winners Announced

The Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards have been held every year since 1984, with a panel of judges nominating ten coins in each of the ten award categories. From there, another panel of international judges reviews the nominees and select the category winners.

The winners of the 40th edition of the annual COTY Awards were announced at the 2023 World’s Fair of Money, held in Pittsburgh earlier this month. This year’s awards ceremony was the first held in-person following a three-year hiatus due to the COVID pandemic.

The Austrian Mint scooped the top prize of Coin of the Year with its €20 silver coin titled ‘The Black Hole’. The coin is concave on one side and convex on the other, with the black hole vortex phenomenon illustrated on the reverse through a funnel shape decorated with a colour-printed spiral. ‘Schwarzes Loch’ is inscribed at the top of the reverse design, German for ‘Black Hole’.