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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 Akseli Gallen-Kallela	20001 20002
	Description : Akseli Gallen‐Kallela (1865‐1931) was a Swedish‐speaking Finnish painter, architect and designer. He is particularly known for his illustrations of the Finnish national epic Kalevala. The coin designer Hannu Veijalainen chose two pictorial elements from his 1897 painting Lemminkäinen's Mother: the swan of Tuonela, the river of the underworld, and the waves symbolising the sinking spirit. In a semicircle on the left and right are the name parts "AKSELI GALLEN" and "KALLELA", flanking a painter's palette on which the year of birth "1865" and the year of issue "2015" can be seen in two lines, as well as a lion (the heraldic animal of Finland) the mint mark of the Finnish mint Suomen Rahapaja OY in Vantaa on the right. The abbreviation of the issuing country "FI" (Finland) is shown at the top right.

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