We are so pleased to share the winning projects for IACA’s 2024 Excellence In Currency Awards for Coin announced today at the Coin Conference in Lisbon, Portugal.
For BEST NEW COMMEMORATIVE/LIMITED CIRCULATION COIN:
WINNER: –Central Bank of The Bahamas, commemorative 25 cent coin celebrating the Bank’s 50-year anniversary (produced by the Royal Canadian Mint)
Finalists:
–Banco de México, 20 peso coin commemorating the bicentennial of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States (produced by Casa de Moneda de México)
–Central Bank of Eswatini, commemorative E50 coin celebrating the Bank’s 50-year anniversary (produced by South African Mint)
–National Bank of Kazakhstan, 30 YEARS OF TENGE Commemorative 1000 Tenge coin celebrating the 30th anniversary of its national currency (produced by the Kazakhstan Mint)
For BEST NEW COIN PRODUCT, PROCESS OR MANUFACTURING INNOVATION:
WINNER–Royal Canadian Mint- Environmentally friendly plating process for circulation coins
Finalists:
–US Mint – Circulating blank annealing furnace retrofit
–Monnaie de Paris – NFC enabled Silver 25Euro
For BEST RECIRCULATION/DISTRIBUTION INITIATIVE OR INNOVATION:
Winners (a tie!) –Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Coin Recirculation Program: Integrating Digitalization and Financial Inclusion and
Central Bank of Eswatini- Coin Management Efficiencies Project
Finalist–US Mint – Bill of Lading Automation System
We appreciate all the organizations who took time to make their nominations. It is not an easy effort to submit nominations for our awards. We have certain criteria that must be addressed through their nomination and it takes time and dedication to make these submissions. So we thank all the organization’s representatives who submitted nominations.
Next we thank our Judging committee. Our judging committee reviews each nomination against our criteria for each category and their combined score gives us our Finalists. So, to be a Finalist is a BIG DEAL and a big honor. Our judging committee for these 2024 Coin Awards were:
–Jon Cameron, Consultant, formerly with US Mint, BEP and Federal Reserve
–Tomasz Jagielinksi, President/CEO of NXTGenDetect
–Brian Lang, EVP IACA, Advisor and former Head of Currency, RBNZ
–Ross MacDiarmid, Former CEO of Royal Australian Mint and former ED for MDC/ MDA
–Astrid Mitchell, Chief Executive, Reconnaissance International
–Lydia Yip, Advisor to Central Banks, former Head of Currency, HKMA
Next, our IACA Voting Members have the responsibility to review the Finalist projects and select the project they feel are best in each category. Each member organization has a certain number of voting delegates that they name. So, we thank our voting members for taking time to do this.
And last –but not least—we thank the Currency News/Coin Conference team—the organizers of the conference for sponsoring the Awards and giving us the conference platform to announce the winners.
Congratulations to all these great projects—most especially to our Winners! You can read all about each of these projects on our website in our Awards Catalogue.
