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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 the composer Jean Sibelius	20001 20002
	Description : Johan Julius Christian ("Jean") Sebelius (1865‐1957) was a Swedish‐speaking Finnish composer at the transition from late Romanticism to Modernism. He developed the four‐movement Lemminkäinen Suite with the character Lemminkäinen from the Finnish national epic Kalevala from parts of conceived but discarded operas. Critics and audiences reacted enthusiastically, especially to the second movement, The Swan of Tuonela (the motif of the Swan of Tuonela is also depicted on another commemorative coin from 2015 dedicated to the painter Akseli Gallen‐Kallela). In German‐speaking countries, he is best known for his violin concerto and his symphonic poem Finlandia. The commemorative coin designed by Nora Tapper on the occasion of his 150th birthday depicts the starry sky between pine trees above his grave in Ainola. On the left is the year "2015", flanked in an arch by "JEAN" and "SIBELIUS". On the right is the country abbreviation "FI" (Finland) and 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