A Closer Look at the IACA Award Finalists: Part 2

In the September issue of Coin & Mint News™, we took a took a closer look at each of the finalists’ projects in the first category of the 2024 IACA Excellent in Currency Awards, ‘Best New Commemorative/ Limited Circulation Coin’. This month, we cover the remaining two award categories – Best New Coin Product, Process or Manufacturing Innovation and Best Recirculation/Distribution Initiative or Innovation.

Presentation of the winning submissions in each category is scheduled to take place at The Coin Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, on Tuesday 29 October.

Best New Coin Product, Process or Manufacturing Innovation

Royal Canadian Mint (RCM)

The Royal Canadian Mint has developed an environmentally friendly bronze plating process for circulation coins. First developed at the RCM facility in Winnipeg, the Mint scaled up manufacturing of bronze plated circulation products through a more environmentally friendly electroplating process that does not use toxic chemicals such as cyanide chemistry.