FROM 1997 THROUGH 2016 at the time of his retirement from the Austrian Mint, Thomas Pesendorfer was involved in the design of 18 Coin of the Year award winning coins. I say involved because the Austrian Mint has a fine tradition of working as a tightly woven team, producing coins often created by two or more team members, with many of the COTY winners having obverse and reverse designs attributed to different designers.
While it is an achievement in itself that a team can create
