American Medal of the Year Award

AMSA’s Prestigious Annual American Medal of the Year Award

Whether you make medals for your own pleasure or for the enjoyment of others…
Whether you make medals for fun or profit.
Whether your medals are made in quantities of 1, 10, 100 or more.
Whether you are a novice or an experienced professional
Whether you submit your own medals, those of a fellow medalist, or both.
If you’re a collector and acquired an amazing medal last year.

Announcing the American Medal of the Year Award.

We ask you to submit one, or up to three, of your medals to be considered for the 2025 American Medal of the Year (AMY) Award. If this competition is to succeed we need as many submissions as possible.

Nominations for the 2025 AMY Award are invited from medalists, mints, judges, AMSA members, or anyone else by March 31, 2025 for medals created by an American medalist or any AMSA medalist regardless of where they live. There is a limit of 3 entries per medalist per year, and once someone wins, they will not be eligible for the next 2 years. Medals must be under 6” diameter and completed in 2024.

Submissions of your own medal(s) should include name, address, email and phone number of medalist, and 300dpi color pictures of both sides, or one side if uniface, of up to three medals. When nominating a medal created by someone else, please include as much of that information as possible; the award committee will contact the artist as necessary.

Nominations for the 2025 AMY should be submitted by March 31, 2025 to:
amy.admin@medal.museum

Entries Must Include:

Name and contact information of the medalist
300 dpi color images of each side submitted medals
Material (if precious metal, include weight)
Dimensions
Price (if available)
Title

Please email submissions and all information above to: amy.admin@medal.museum

To encourage camaraderie and growth of familiarity with contemporary medallic art, the 7-person judging committee is permanent and consists of persons from the numismatic world and museums, who have no conflicts of interest.

The seven distinguished jurors are:

Philip Attwood, Honorary Research Curator British Museum, President of FIDEM, and editor of The Medal

Steve Biede

Caleb Noel: Editor-in-Chief of The Numismatist

Steve Roach: Editor-at-Large of Coin World

Alan Stahl, Ph.D.: Curator of Numismatics, Princeton University

Mel Wacks: Member Board of Directors of AMSA, Director of the Jewish-American Hall of Fame

Ben Weiss, Ph.D.: Member of the Board of Directors of Medal Collectors of America (MCA)

Each year, the winning artist is invited, but not obligated, to join the jury for a two year term, the period during which they are not eligible to submit entries.

The judging committee may determine up to 2 runner-ups. The award winner and runner-ups are announced in press releases and will be featured on an AMY page on the AMSA website. The winner receives an award medal designed and created by Heidi Wastweet.

For any inquiries, please contact us using the email below:

amy.admin@medal.museum