Coin of the Year
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Hungary has won the 2009 People’s Choice Award, one of the
awards given by Numismatic News’ sister publication, World
Coin News, in its annual Coin of the Year competition.
Online voting concluded Jan. 4, 2009, after beginning the
prior November. It is the one award in the Coin of the Year
family that is chosen by an online vote of collectors
worldwide. The other winners, which will be announced in
coming weeks, are selected by an international panel of
judges.
The award will be given Feb. 7 at the World Money Fair in
Berlin, Germany.
The winning Hungarian coin is a 2007-dated sterling silver
piece from the Hungarian Castle series. It depicts Gyula
Castle on the reverse and has a stylized wall with tower
from the castle and the 5,000-forint denomination
prominently featured on the obverse.
The coin is silver dollar sized at 38.61mm and it weighs
not quite a troy ounce at 31.46 grams.
Designer is Gyorgy Kiss. The coin was struck in proof and
uncirculated versions.
Online voters selected the coin from a field of 15. The
other contenders came from Austria, two mints in Australia,
Canada, China, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Japan,
Poland, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The People’s Choice Award was first given in 2008. It also
was won by Hungary.