10 Krooni 2010 - " The XXI Olympic Winter Games 2010"

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PRESS RELEASE 15 July 2009

Eesti Pank announces a design competition for a collector coin dedicated to the Winter Olympics

Eesti Pank announces a design competition for a collector coin dedicated to the XXI Olympic Winter Games that will be held in Vancouver. Both individuals and groups of authors are welcome to participate in the competition.

Issuing collector coins dedicated to the Olympic Games is a long tradition in Eesti Pank that started already in 1992. In order to mark the XXI Olympic Winter Games that will be held in Vancouver, Canada in 2010, Eesti Pank will issue a silver collector coin with the nominal value of 10 kroons. Eesti Pank expects the design to depict identifiably one or more winter sports, some particular feature(s) characteristic to the Winter Olympics or achievements of Estonian sportsmen in winter sports. The design has to bear the nominal value "10 krooni" and the logo of the Estonian Olympic Committee. The design should not include symbols that are the property of the International Olympic Committee and the organising committee of the Vancouver Olympic Winter Games.

The deadline for submitting duly completed designs to Eesti Pank is 10 September 2009.

A participant or a group of participants may submit more than one design. The panel convened by Eesti Pank will disclose the competition results by 17 September 2009, at the latest. The winning design will be awarded with 30,000 kroons after the issuance of the coin.

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PRESS RELEASE 18 September 2009

Stanislav Kalinin wins the design competition for the Vancouver Winter Olympics collector coin

On Thursday the panel convened by Eesti Pank declared the winner of the design competition for the collector coin dedicated to the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games a freelance designer and student of Graphic Design at the Estonian Academy of Arts Stanislav Kalinin.

The design competition for the silver collector coin with the nominal value of 10 kroons was won by Stanislav Kalinin whose design bears the name "Skiers abstract". The second place went to the artists Tiiu Prisko and Mati Veermets for their design "Alaver" and the third place was won by Kärri Jürisson, a third-year Graphic Design student at the Estonian Academy of Arts, for the design "liugleja".

After the coins are issued, the winner will be paid the prize money of 30,000 kroons. The winner of the second place will receive 20,000 kroons and that of the third place 15,000 kroons. If a design has several authors, they will have to share the prize money.

After approval by the Supervisory Board of Eesti Pank the design will be published on the web site of Eesti Pank.

Eesti Pank received a total of 69 designs for the design competition for the collector coin dedicated to the XXI Winter Olympics to be held in Vancouver. The coin will be issued at the beginning of 2010.

The designs and their compliance with requirements were assessed by a 7-member panel convened by Eesti Pank. The panel included representatives of the central bank, as well as from the Supervisory Board of Eesti Pank, from the Estonian Artists' Association and the Estonian Olympic Committee. The collector coin design competition's technical, participation and assessment conditions and criteria are available on the web site of Eesti Pank.

For further information:
Ingrid Mitt
Public Relations Bureau
Telephone: +372 6680 965
ingrid.mitt@epbe.ee

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Eesti Pank issued a Vancouver collector coin

Today, Governor of Eesti Pank ANDRES LIPSTOK presented a silver collector coin with nominal value 10 kroons dedicated to the XXI Winter Olympic Games held in Vancouver. The coins, which cost 350 kroons, are sold in the Museum of Eesti Pank (Estonia pst 11) and in the offices of SEB Bank throughout Estonia.

Secretary General of the Estonian Olympic Committee Toomas Tõnise, the Ambassador of Canada to the Baltic States Scott Heatherington, and the author of the coin design Stanislav Kalinin spoke at the presentation.

One side of the silver coin depicts a dynamic stylised image of racing cross-country skiers, the nominal value "10 KROONI", the logo of the Estonian Olympic Committee, and the figure XXI. The other side depicts the coat of arms of the Republic of Estonia, the year 2010, and the text "EESTI VABARIIK". The mintage of the collector coins is 10,000 and they were made by Mint of Finland.

The coin is sold by the Museum of Eesti Pank and by the following SEB offices: in the Tornimäe, Lasnamäe Centrum, Pae, Magistrali, Nõmme, Järve, Roosikrantsi, Kristiine and Õismäe offices in Tallinn and in the SEB offices in Rapla, Pärnu, Haapsalu, Kuressaare, Rakvere, Kiviõli, Jõhvi, Narva, Sillamäe, Kohtla-Järve, Paide, Viljandi, Põltsamaa, Jõgeva, Põlva, Võru, Valga, Tartu, Antsla and Otepää.

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