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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	100th birthday of Ilmari Tapiovaara	20001 20002
	Description : Ilmari Tapiovaara (1914‐1999), Finnish interior architect and designer, worked in the offices of Alvar Aalto in London and Le Corbusier in Paris, among others ‐ his students in turn included Eero Aarnio. As a visiting professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Tapiovaara also had lively contact with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. He had a penchant for developing seating furniture that could be dismantled or stacked. In 1971 he received the Finnish State Prize for Design. The coin, designed by Harri Koskinen, states the name of the jubilarian "ILMARI TAPIOVAARA" and his life data "1914 ‐ 1999" in the form of a circle and shows a detail of a chair characteristic of his designs. On the right, the year of issue "2014", the country abbreviation "FI" (Finland) and a lion (the heraldic animal of Finland) are depicted 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