The 3rd  Excellence in Currency Awards, organised by the International Association of Currency Affairs (IACA), were presented at the 2010 Currency Conference, held from May 12-15, 2010 in Buenos Aires.

See the 2010 Currency Awards winners and runners-up

Read the 2010 Excellence in Currency Awards press release.

Visit the IACA website

The awards, which are sponsored by Currency News, were introduced to promote and recognise excellence in currency production processing, management and distribution and are open to any organisation or individual products and systems of the currency industry, as well as issuing authorities, commercial banks and enforcement agencies.

As with the awards presented at Prague in October 2008 and in Bangkok in May 2007, there are seven categories:

• Best New Banknote or Series
• Best New Coin or Series
• Best New Feature
• Best New Process or System
• Best Public Education Campaign
• Best Website
• Lifetime Achievement Award

• View winners and runners-up of the 2008 currency awards
• View winners and runners-up of the 2007 currency awards