Welcome to Mint of Finland’s coin issue event in Berlin 28.1.2011

Mint of Finland traditionally presents its yearly programme of new products at the Berlin World Money Fair and its 2011 Purple Programme is exceptionally abundant. In Berlin the company will be publicizing a collector coin minted to commemorate a Finnish designer who also achieved international renown, Kaj Franck, as well as a collector coin for the greatest Finn of his time, Pehr Kalm.

Mint of Finland at the Berlin Fair

28.1.2011

10.30 – 14.00
Announcement of the Purple programme, Media Forum

14.30
Launch of the Kaj Franck and Industrial Art collector coin,
issue of the Pehr Kalm, European Explorers collector coin at Mint of Finland's exhibition stand

Paul Gustafsson
CEO, Mint of Finland

Registration by 24.1. to Communications and Marketing Designer Katriina Nieminen, tel. + 358 (0) 400 316 898, email: katriina.nieminen(at)mint.fi

Kaj Franck is one of the best known Finnish designers on the international stage. It’s not possible to talk of Finnish design without mentioning Kaj Franck. He had the courage and the skill to bring out the true essence in every object he designed. And in a world that grows ever more complex, simplicity and clarity are always in style.

Pehr Kalm was the greatest Finn of his time. When explorers during the age of the Enlightenment headed off to the unknown corners of the earth, the father of natural sciences, Carl Linnaeus, sent one of his 17 ‘apostles’, Finnish-born Pehr Kalm, off to North America. While on his perilous journeys across restless regions he discovered hundreds of new plant species. He wrote up his findings in a series of travel sketches and his description of the Niagara Falls was published in several papers.

Mint of Finland is the largest mint in Scandinavia and the Baltic and is the sole owner of AB Myntverket, the Mint of Sweden, and it has a 50 percent shareholding in the Norwegian Mint, Det Norske Myntverket. Mint of Finland is dedicated to designing, marketing and minting coins. The company is owned by the Finnish state. Mint of Finland produces metal circulation coins, collector and special coins and, coins sets. The group employs some 100 people and exports to nearly 40 countries. During 2011, Mint of Finland will issue six new collector coins and seven provincial coins. Finns are able to see how coins are produced at the ‘About a coin’ exhibition at Heureka, the Finnish Science Centre. For further information about the 2011 events, go to: www.suomenrahapaja.fi