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Finland
The edge lettering on the Finnish 2‐Euro‐commemorative coins is : (Finland in Finnish and Swedish; depicted are three lions) Different embossings are noted in the individual description.	Finish mint marks : 2007‐2009 / from 2010

Image	Country		Feature	Ref.
		Finland	150th anniversary of Finnish Currency	20001 20002
	Description : In 1860, Tsar Alexander II of Russia decreed that Finland could introduce its own currency. The first notes denominated in Markka were issued on the 1st of April 1860 and the first Markka silver coins on the 15th of October 1860. The commemorative coin, designed by Reijo Juhani Paavilainen, shows the stylised lion from Finland's coat of arms on the left. On the right side, numbers "1", "2" and "5" are embossed to symbolise different coin values. On the left is the year of issue "2010", below the country abbreviation "FI" (Finland) and on the right a lion (the heraldic animal of Finland) the new mint mark of the Finnish mint Suomen Rahapaja OY in Vantaa.

References :
20001	Images taken with authorisation by the ECB ‐ Mail dated 20.Feb.2020 © "European Central Bank"	20002	Text taken from German Wikipedia and translated by DeepL
20003	Images taken temporally from the Internet	20004	Not Applicable