Tom Michael was busy juggling all the work putting together the 40th Coin of the Year program alongside his usual duties as a Market Analyst for NumisMaster.com but still graciously granted me some of his limited time to sit down for an interview. This is only the third Coin of the Year Program I have had the privilege of watching come together since I joined the Numismatics team as the editor of World Coin News and I am still in awe of the amount of work that goes into making the program what it is. I remember all the questions I subjected Michael and his co-coordinator Maggie Pahl to when I was first heard of it. What is it? How does it work? How do you maintain integrity? And most importantly: How can I be involved?
The excitement of the 40th awards gave me the perfect opportunity to sit down with Michael and ask him a few questions about COTY, some of which we get asked often from readers, and a few I thought might be of interest to those who follow the competition every year.
