COTY-Winning Apollo 11 Coin Overcame Challenges
Apr 02, 2021
4 minutes
By Tom Michael
At the 15th annual Technical Forum held at the World Money Fair in Berlin, Germany, in 2019, Ronald E. Harrigal, director of design and engraving at the United States Mint gave a presentation entitled “2019 Apollo Commemorative Coin Program Challenges and Results.” At that time, Harrigal was a 33-year veteran of the United States Mint technical staff and acting as senior advisor on the Apollo coin project.
The U.S. Mint had produced curved coins in 2014 with the Baseball Hall of Fame series, which won two categories in the 2016 Coin of the Year (COTY) Awards and then took the overall prize for top Coin of
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