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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 birthday of Helene Schjerfbeck	20001 20002
	Description : The early work of the Finnish‐Swedish painter Helene Schjerfbeck (1862‐1946) was characterised by a radical naturalism. After a study visit to Paris, she felt like an outsider in the national‐romantic dominated Finnish art world. She left naturalism behind and developed her own style of painting, characterised by expressive colours and strong lines. Dedicated to her 150th birthday, the coin motif designed by Eria Tielinen depicts a self‐portrait of Schjerfbeck painted in 1937. On the occasion of the 50th‐anniversary of her death, it resembles the 100‐markkaa coin minted in 1996. On the left, the name "HELENE SCHJERFBECK" is depicted vertically, below it the country abbreviation "FI" (Finland) and next to it the year of issue "2012". On the right, the dates of her life "1862‐1946" are written vertically and below that a lion (the heraldic animal of Finland) the 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