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What is the purpose of the CEDA Michel Prieur Prize?

As we are happy to show our pleasure to those who create beautiful euro coins or sets, the AD€ association has decided to award each year (since 2007) the CEDA prize (Coupure Euro De l'Année). In 2014, following the death of Michel PRIEUR, one of the founding members of the association, it was decided to rename the CEDA prize to Prix CEDA Michel PRIEUR in his memory.

The issues are numerous and some of them are of high quality. The CEDA Michel PRIEUR is a prize which, in the spirit of the ADE, should reward innovation and the intrinsic graphic or artistic quality of the proposed denomination or euro object, rather than its rarity and/or heritage value.

In addition, the aim of each association is to gain new members: each new member will bring his or her own viewpoint, knowledge, vision of things... and time to advance the common cause. To gain members, you need to be known, visible and present in the media.

How does the CEDA Michel PRIEUR prize work?

It works in two simple stages:

As a first step, the Board of Directors proposes a list of 5 to 20 coins, boxes, banknotes (or any other object in the Euro collection area, as defined by the "Euro" books, i.e. official and legitimate), issued during the current year. The list will be announced in January.

The proposals are then put online and each member can vote during a given period. A second round may be held if the winner does not stand out sufficiently. At the end of the voting (in one or two rounds), the result is announced.

CEDA 2015?

Each ADE therefore has a role to play in awarding the CEDA Michel PRIEUR 2015 prize: you have to elect the most beautiful denomination from among the coins, boxes and other euro objects on the list pre-selected by the Board of Directors. This is the only numismatic prize where the electoral college is made up of active, non-professional collectors, who are therefore primarily concerned by the notes issued by our monetary institutes. In short, each year we offer you the opportunity to express your views on the quality of the work of our mints, and to do so in a constructive manner.

CEDA 2015: results!

Results of the CEDA Michel Prieur Prize 2015.

After a neck-and-neck competition lasting 3 weeks and involving 278 members, the 2015 CEDA Michel Prieur prize was awarded to ...

A quick reminder before we find out the results and the winner of this year's event:

The Prix CEDA Michel Prieur is first and foremost the initials of Coup European DheAyear. The prize was created by the AD€ to reward innovation and the graphic or artistic quality of a euro banknote or object. It is also a posthumous tribute to Michel Prieur, one of the association's founding members and a director for 10 years.

The voting system, which continues to evolve every year, enabled all of the association's volunteers and around ten members chosen by lot to propose and draw up a list of 42 pre-nominees. The results of the 14 best were then retained and you had until Saturday 21 May 2016 to vote and elect the winner.

The candidates in the top two places quickly separated, and it was only in the final moments of the vote that first place was definitively won.

Congratulations to Luxembourg for the 10 euro France "Unesco - Les Invalides" which won the 2015 CEDA Michel Prieur prize, second place went to the 5 euro Latvia "Rainis et Aspazija" and third place to the 2 euro Malta "100 ans du premier vol".

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Votes

History of CEDA

Full results

10 euro France "Unesco - Les Invalides	46
5 euro Latvia Rainis and Aspazija	39
2 euro Malta "100 years since the first flight".	39
25 euro Niobium Austria "Cosmology	34
10 euro Italy "70 years of peace in Europe	31
2 euro France "70 years of peace in Europe	27
20 euro Austria "Quaternary	15
100 euro Austria "Capercaillie	12
2 euro Latvia "Stork	12
5 euro Luxembourg "Aphrodite	7
5 euro Luxembourg "Wildcat	6
2 euro Belgium "Year of Development	5
2 euro Vatican "8th World Meeting of Families".	3
10 euro Ireland "70 years of peace in Europe	2
Total votes	278

Michel PRIEUR

Michel PRIEUR (1955-2014) was a leading French numismatist. He was Chairman of cgb.fr, the successor to Compagnie Générale de Bourse (CGB), which he founded in 1988 and which is the largest numismatic company in France. In 2003, he was one of the founders of the AD€ association (Les Amis de l'Euro).

A member of the Board of Directors since its inception, he was successively Advisor from 2003 to 2005, Secretary from 2005 to 2007, General Secretary from 2007 to 2009, and then Strategic Advisor from 2009 to 2013. Members who have attended our Annual General Meetings will remember his many contributions on various topics relating to euro numismatics.

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