The winners of the 2025 Coin of the Year competition were announced on 21 August 2025. In May this year, the COTY Nomination Committee chose 10 coins in each category, the so-called COTY 100, from among the 550 coins entered in the competition. Our own highlights among this year's prize winners are:

We have plenty of new coins in the pipeline for the first half of 2026:

The Swiss franc has been Switzerland's currency since 1850. Its legal basis is the Act on Federal Coinage. Before then, payments were made in cantonal currencies: guilders, francs, batzen, dubloons and denari.

To mark this event in style, Swissmint is issuing the new Swiss Aviation coin series.

With around 1,500 lakes and innumerable rivers, Switzerland is a reservoir at the heart of Europe. On 30 October, Swissmint issued the first two coins in a new four-part series on Swiss lakes.

Terms such as “billon” and “Nordic Gold”, and abbreviations such as Ag and Pt are commonly used by experienced coin collectors. We have summarised the most important terms and abbreviations for younger collectors.