United States Wins Top Coin of the Year Award

The US Mint’s ‘Liberty Through Perseverance’ $100 gold coin has been awarded the top prize in this year’s Coin of the Year (COTY) awards. The 2024 awards honour coins dated 2023 in 10 categories of competition, as decided by an international panel of judges.

The coin, which also won in the ‘Best Gold Coin’ category by a margin of 30%, is the sixth released in the US Mint’s Liberty series. It features a bristlecone pine tree on the obverse and a young bald eagle standing on a rocky outcropping moments before it takes flight on the reverse.

Voting for the overall COTY award was tight, with the final ballot ‘so evenly distributed that the top five coins were separated by a margin of just 10 votes’, said Thomas Michael, COTY coordinator. This did not stop the Liberty coin ‘surg[ing] past the next closest competitor by half of that spread’.