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10 Euros Elias Lönnrot
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 2002 |
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| Reference(s) | KM#108, Schön#107 |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Lönnrot spent decades traveling the remote parishes of Karelia collecting oral poetry from runo-singers, ultimately assembling the Kalevala in 1835 — a work that gave Finnish-speaking Finns a shared mythological identity at a moment when the country existed only as a Russian Grand Duchy with no political independence to speak of. Finland's 2002 commemorative series marking the euro transition consciously paired new currency with deep national symbols, and Lönnrot was an obvious candidate.
The .925 silver specification places this squarely in Finland's collector-issue tradition rather than circulation.