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Konsta Jylhä collector coin announced at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival
The Konsta Jylhä and folk music collector coin was announced at the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival where the master composer’s centenary is very much in evidence. Exceptionally Mint of Finland permitted the release of 2,000 of the brilliant uncirculated (BU) coins in Kaustinen. In addition to this, the Mint’s Managing Director Paul Gustafson presented proof coins to Provincial Councillor Viljo S. Määttälä and to Conductor Juha Kangas at the end of the Kansansoittajien kuningas (King of the Folk Musicians) concert.
‘The Mint of Finland has earlier struck coins with a music theme, commemorating Jean Sibelius (1999), Aino Ackté (2001) and Fredrik Pacius (2009). It is important that we also now have a coin commemorating Konsta Jylhä and folk music,’ explains Paul Gustafson. ‘ Folk music is the music that is stored in our memories and in this sense it has links with the Kalevala’s song traditions. The vitality of folk music is a testament in its own way to the strength of the Kalevala song tradition. Mint of Finland collector coins are always struck in honour of a notable event or person.’ The Mint struck a coin to commemorate the Kalevala (Finland’s national epic) in 1985.
The remaining Konsta Jylhä and folk music coins will be on sale from 10.8.2010 through Mint of Finland’s web shop and retailers. 10,000 proof coins will be struck. After the Folk Music Festival, 3,000 of the brilliant uncirculated (BU) coins remain. The coin was designed by Reijo Paavilainen. It has a nominal value of 10 euros, it is 38.6 mm in diameter and it weighs 25.5 g.
For further information and material:
Mint of Finland Ltd
Henna Karjalainen
Communications Manager
Tel. +358 50,575 9197
email henna.karjalainen@mint.fi
Mint of Finland is the leading company in its field in Scandinavia and the Baltic region. Mint of Finland owns Mint of Sweden (AB Myntverket) and 50% of Mint of Norway Ltd. (Det Norske Myntverket AS). Its activities include the design, marketing and minting of coins. The company is owned by the Finnish state. It encompasses two business units: Circulation Coins and Collector Items. Mint of Finland produces metal circulation coins, jubilee and special coins, coins sets, medals, badges of honour and jewellery. The group employs some 133 people and exports to nearly 40 countries. The year 2010 marks the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Mint by the order of Tsar Alexander II. During the jubilee year, Mint of Finland will issue five new collector coins, open an online boutique, and in October, Finns can discover how coins are minted at an exposition at the Finnish Science Centre Heureka. For further details about the jubilee year events, see our website at www.suomenrahapaja.fi
