Nominations Open for IACA and MDC Award Programmes

The nomination period for the 2025 Excellence in Currency Awards is now open and will close 21 February 2025.

There are four award categories for this round:

• Best New Circulating Banknote or Banknote Series
• Best New Circulating Coin or Coin Series
• Best New Currency Public Engagement Program
• Best New Cash Cycle Cash Visibility Program/Initiative.

The latter is a new category, and ties in with IACA’s Cash Visibility & Collaboration programme that has been running throughout 2024. Cash Visibility refers to having a view of where cash (banknotes and coins) is, when it moves, how it moves and/or the details of the notes/coins (value/ denomination, etc) in the cash cycle. This category will recognise organised efforts, plans, programmes put into place that result in more visibility for one or more stakeholders in the cash cycle.

Projects of any issuer of banknotes/coins, central bank or ministry of finance, mint or other supplier of currency products and services are eligible for nomination in the appropriate categories. Nominations are limited to projects issued/completed between 1 February 2023 through 31 January 2025 (with the exception of the Cash Visibility category, which has no beginning date).