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To the designer of the Children and Creativity collector coin, creativity means making the impossible possible
Over 1,000 visitors to Mint of Finland’s website voted for Roope Määttä’s design, Taivaanrannan tuolla puolen (Over the Horizon) to help choose the theme of the Children and Creativity collector coin, to be launched on October 20. Määttä is an art student at the Kajaani Upper Secondary School. Severi Heikkilä from the children’s movie Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief officially supervised the voters’ raffle.
For the first time, a collector coin’s theme was selected by public vote. Between May 18 and June 18, 2010, visitors to Mint of Finland’s website were able to vote for their favourite design from among 11 potential coin designs to help choose the theme of the Children and Creativity collector coin. All competing artworks were created by students at fine art high schools. 48 designs participated in the competition.
Towards the Impossible and Beyond
The winning design, Taivaanrannan tuolla puolen (Over the Horizon) was designed by Roope Määttä, an art student at the Kajaani Upper Secondary School.
“I think creativity is aspiring to the impossible and seeing beyond it. Taivaanrannan tuolla puolen depicts a moment when an impossible thing comes to pass, and another is reached for. My design also shows that one should always remembers one’s roots,” Määttä says.
The runner-up was Hiekkaleikkejä (Sand Games), a design by Jonna Poutiainen, a student at the Helsinki Upper Secondary School of the Visual Arts. Tutkiva luovuus (Investigative Creativity) by Katri Piri, a student at the Tiirismaa Upper Secondary School in Lahti, won third place.
Ricky Rapper (actor Severi Heikkilä) discovers the manufacture of money
A Children and Creativity collector coin along with pieces of jewellery made at Mint of Finland were raffled among the participants in the vote for the Children and Creativity coin’s theme. The raffle was supervised by Severi Heikkilä from the children’s movie Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief.
In addition to the raffle, Heikkilä also discovered the manufacture of money. Heikkilä was granted a special licence to mint a silver collector coin. “I thank you for the honour of letting me visit Mint of Finland,” Heikkilä said. Upon seeing the silver farewell gift, Heikkilä’s eyes welled in astonishment: “Is this actually made of real silver?”
Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief premiered on February 12, 2010. The movie is still being shown in theatres, and so far it has been seen by 316,674 people. The movie will be available in DVD in November.
Further information:
Henna Karjalainen
Communications Manager
The Mint of Finland Ltd
+ 358 50 575 9197
henna.karjalainen(at)mint.fi
Mint of Finland is the leading company in its field in Scandinavia and the Baltic region. Mint of Finland is dedicated to designing, marketing and minting 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 250 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 commemorative coins. In April, it will open an online boutique, and in October, Finns can discover how coins are minted at an exhibition at the Finnish Science Centre Heureka. For further details about the jubilee year events, see our website at www.suomenrahapaja.fi
Ricky Rapper (actor Severi Heikkilä) supervised the raffle among the voters, ensuring that it was carried out fairly. Heikkilä also discovered the manufacture of money. In the picture, Heikkilä is showing the collector coin he minted. Collector coins should be handled with gloves to avoid leaving fingerprints on their surface. 
The raffle’s official superviser Ricky Rapper (actor Severi Heikkilä) and Mint of Finland’s CEO Paul Gustafsson are showing the winning design of the Children and Creativity competition. The winning design “Taivaanrannan tuolla puolen” (Over the Horizon) was created by Roope Määttä, an art student at the Kajaani Upper Secondary School. 
Terhi Makkonen from Kerava (Finland) won the collector coin Children and Creativity in the raffle. |
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