2012 People’s Choice for Coin of the Year Award

Just read in an article from Austria that the "overall" COTY winner - keep in mind that there are ten categories - will probably be a London Olympics coin from the UK or a Canadian dollar. Hmm, there is a British piece in the "People's Choice" list, and one from Canada too ... The winner will be announced at the World Money Fair in early February.

Christian

 

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She is carrying the whole weight of the USSR on her back. It is a wry bit of humour, much like Hungarian medal from a few years ago showing backsides of Russian soldiers leaving Hungary when the Russian army pulled their bases.

 

Update see post #25.

 

The mother Theresa coin has my respect, and would be my favorite. But, I for the life of me, cannot figure out how the Boy Scout coin made the cut.

 

Seems that the "Jonah" coin did not win the People's Choice award but is the "overall" winner: http://numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=24604

Christian

 

perhaps one year a genuine circulating coin might win the vote, instead of all the nclt crap. there is no way the £5 coin from the uk was the best of our issues for this year!!!

 

As far as I can tell, Krause's COTY "candidates" are always NCLT pieces. So the winners will not have anything to do with circulating coinage. Then again, those pseudo-coins may help keeping artists interested in designing coins, so if they want to award such issues, fine with me.

As for the "People's Choice", well ... "For the fifth time in five years, the National Bank of Hungary has won the People's Choice Coin of the Year Award" (from the numismaster.com article). I wonder who votes there.

Christian