Coin of the Year 2018

The world’s first ‘tri-material coin’, 5 euro coin ‘Blue Planet Earth’ won the Awards for 2018 Coin Of The Year (COTY). The 2018 COTY trophies were awarded at the 2018 World Money Fair Berlin, Germany on 3 February 2018.

The €5 “Planet Earth” collector coin consists of three components: an outer ring, an inner core as well as an embossable blue polymer ring inserted between the ring and the core. The blue ring is also partially translucent, which means that it is permeable to light.

MOST INNOVATIVE COIN / COIN OF THE YEAR

German Federal Ministry of Finance

5 Euro, Copper-Nickel

Planet Earth, Polymer Ring with

Different Blue Pigment for Each Mint

(for events that date back 100 years or more)

Monnaie de Paris

200 Euro, Gold

Joan of Arc

Monnaie de Paris

50 Euro, Silver

Van Cleef and Arpels

(for events that occurred less than 100 years ago)

Swiss Mint

20 Francs, Silver

Gottardo Tunnel

China Banknote Printing and Minting

10 Yuan, Bi-Metallic

Year of the Monkey, with Security Features

Royal Canadian Mint

20 Dollars, Silver

Mother Earth, 3-D Droplet

Royal Australian Mint

5 Dollars, Silver

Northern Sky Cassiopeia, Dome-Shaped

Austrian Mint

25 Euro, Bi-Metallic Niobium Silver

Time

Austrian Mint

100 Euro, Gold

Wildlife in Our Sights, The Fox

Bank of Latvia

5 Euro, Silver

National Entrepreneur, Multi-Faceted and QR Code

The COTY Awards are sponsored by World Coin News, the World Money Fair and the Journal of East Asian Numismatics.

Created in 1984, they have been given by World Coin News to recognize the best of the coiner’s art and to encourage world mints to continue to challenge themselves in creating these great numismatic works.

World Coin News is a monthly periodical dedicated to collecting international coinage and is a sister publication to the weekly Numismatic News, which is dedicated to U.S. numismatics.