
This is the Koisjärven mänty
(Koisjärvi pine) Have you ever seen it before?

You may have seen it before. It was on the 10, 20 and 50MK coins 1953-1963 and 10, 20, 50PEN coins 1963-1990. Most Finns have seen it atleast once (on the coin) but do not know the story. It still is a honored tree (Nobody has done anything bad to it) and it has had its purpose in the village's history:
The horses were once left next to the tree.
The Suomen Rahapaja says that it actually IS NOT the model for the coin. Nobody knows. The people who designed it are not alive anymore, so I guess it will be a mystery...I guess they atleast copied this well known pine. It looked a lot like the pine in the coin years ago, but it has changed.



