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FRANCE: the 2012 New SOWER

La Monnaie de Paris presents the new 2012 Sower with the back "10 years of the Euro"

It is available in silver and also gold.

½ gram of gold to 60 €

¼ ounce to 490 €

½ ounce to € 1000

2 ounces to 3900 €

(Prices shown are list price).

Source: Monnaie de Paris

New collector coin in Finland celebration the Year of design

             

Collector coin for the Finnish Year of Design

Inspiration a defining moment for a designer

 

Next year, during Helsinki’s tenure as the World Design Capital, international attention will focus on Finnish design. Mint of Finland and the Ministry of Finance are planning to issue a collector coin in honour of the year of design. A piece by designer Henna Lamberg, depicting inspiration ‒ the motivator of all creative work – has been chosen as the coin's theme. Download image of plaster cast that models the coin from here.

 

Finnish design is experiencing a boom around the world, and in recognition of this, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design elected Helsinki as the World Design Capital for 2012. The design coin will allow Finland to have an international souvenir that expresses what our country is like today.

 

When a product looks and feels good, it is well designed. ‘The design of the coin to be introduced follows Scandinavian principles: it is clear-cut and focused. The collector coin will, however, also be an expression of our times, as its lines and various alternating surfaces make it modern’, says Henna Karjalainen, Communications Director of Mint of Finland.

 

In search of inspiration

 

Inspiration is the force behind creativity. The collector coin for the jubilee year has been designed by industrial designer Henna Lamberg, who explains that she did not want to let the audience off easy.

 

‘The coin will safekeep my inspiration, in the way I experienced it.  Inspiration is the moment when I know what I intend to do, and the plans for a design become clear. I hope the coin will inspire ideas and make people think of its story’, says Lamberg.

 

The collector coin for Finnish creativity will be minted with a nominal value of €50, and its materials will be gold and silver. A base-metal version of the coin, with a nominal value of €5, will also be minted.

 

The Collector Coin Committee established by the Ministry of Finance selected the theme of the collector coin amongst competition entries. Senior Budget Secretary Marja Kirppu from the Ministry of Finance acted as the chairman of the Collector Coin Committee.

 

Other members of the Committee included Paul Gustafsson, CEO of Mint of Finland, Maria Lähteenmäki, Docent at the University of Helsinki, Heikki Malme, Chief Curator at Ateneum, Iiro A. Ahokas, representing the Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo, Niels Haukeland, representing the Association of Finnish Sculptors, Kai van der Puij representing the Finnish Association of Architects, and PekkaTimonen, representing the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme.

Sources: Mint of FINLAND 

choose the design of an official issue of the Mint of FINLAND

             

Make your vote count 11-19 January 2012

Have your say on the design of the Ice Hockey World Championships 2012 collector coin

 

Today, Mint of Finland has opened a public vote to decide the design of the Ice Hockey World Championships 2012 collector coin. Visitors to the Mint of Finland website can vote for their favourite from 10 potential coin designs until 19 January. The design with the most votes will be minted on the coin, which will be issued on 2 April 2012. Download images of the potential coin designs here.

At the same time, voters will be entered into a prize draw, in which everyone will have the chance to win a copy of the final minted coin. The results of the prize draw will be announced on 23 January 2012.

A coin for hockey fans

Mint of Finland is getting its skates on and joining in the ice hockey fever by issuing a Ministry-of-Finance-commissioned coin for a nation of hockey fans. The 2012 Ice Hockey World Championships will be jointly hosted by Finland and Sweden.

"At the Finnish Ice Hockey Association we are proud that the World Championships will be commemorated with a collector coin. There are a huge number of hockey fans in Finland, so a collector coin will be a great souvenir for them," says the president of the Finnish Ice Hockey Association and the Organising Committee for the 2012 Ice Hockey World Championships, Kalervo Kummola.

Artists from all over Finland have sent 29 entries to the collector coin design competition, from which a Collector Coin Committee assigned by the Ministry of Finance selected 10 designs for the public vote.

"The designs capture the excitement of the movement of our skilful hockey heroes on the ice and the atmosphere of the ice hockey arena. In April we will get to mint a coin that hockey fans everywhere can feel is their own," says Paul Gustafsson, a member of the committee and CEO of Mint of Finland.

 

The jury was made up of experts from the fields of art, minting and ice hockey

The jury of experts that whittled down the number of entries for the public vote included Finnish Ice Hockey Association communications manager Henna Malmberg, industrial designer Hannu Havusto from The Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo, sculptor Anssi Taulu from the Association of Finnish Sculptors and architect Risto Iivonen from the Finnish Association of Architects.

The president of the Collector Coin Committee is Professor Yrjö Sotamaa of Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture. The permanent members of the committee include Mint of Finland Ltd CEO Paul Gustafsson, Senior Budget Secretary Marja Kirppu from the Ministry of Finance, Head of Currency Department Mauri Lehtinen from Bank of Finland, University of Helsinki lecturer Maria Lähteenmäki and curator Heikki Halme of the Ateneum Art Museum.

 

 

Sources: Mint of FINLAND

The package: 2011 BU set of MONACO and 2011 BU2€ Commemorative Coin

Stamps and Coins Museum of MONACO offers to its clients the following package:            

- the 2011 BU box with €2 CC prince Albert Wedding at €150.

- the annual 2011 BU set including divisionnal coins and the €2 CC at €220.

These two items may be bought in one single order at the promotionnal price of €340 ( €30 of price reducing)

Sources: Stamps and Coins Museum of MONACO and AD€ Forum.

SLOVENIA Issuing dates for 2010

To follow a previous message about Slovenian 2010 issue there is the planning: 

2euro cc

- 2€ CC-"Botanical garden" - (2€) - 10.05.2010 
- 2€ CC-"Botanical garden"-ROLL - (50€) - 10.05.2010 
- 2€ CC-"Botanical garden" Coin card proof  (10€)10.05.2010 
- 2€ CC-"Botanical garden"-PROOF - (6€) - 10.05.2010

3 euro
- 3€-"LJ.-World book capital" - (3€) - 12.04.2010 
- 3€-"LJ.-World book capital"-ROLL - (60€) - 12.04.2010 
- 3€-"LJ.-World book capital"Coin card proof (11€) 12.04.2010 
- 3€-"LJ.-World book capital"-PROOF (8€) 12.04.2010 

Ljubljana  world book capital
- 30€-"LJ.-World book capital"-Silver-PROOF (40€) 12.04.2010 
- 100€-"LJ.-World book capital"-Gold-PROOF  (200€) 12.04.2010

Sky flying championship in Planica 
- 30€-"Sky Flying Planica"-Silver-PROOF (40€) - 14.03.2010 already issued 
- 100€-"Sky Flying Planica"-Gold-PROOF  (200€) 14.03.2010 already issued 

2010 set
- BU SET (1c-2€+2€CC+3€CC) - (25€) - 10.05.2010 
- PROOF SET (1c-2€+2€CC+3€CC) - (45€) - 10.05.2010