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10 Euros Finnish Tango

Issuer Bank of Finland
Year 2017
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Value 10 Euros
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Finnish tango is a genre distinct enough from its Argentine source that musicologists treat it as a separate tradition — slower, more melancholic, shaped by a Lutheran fatalism that Finns themselves acknowledge with dry humor. This coin was issued as part of Finland's centennial independence celebrations, a year-long program that produced dozens of collector pieces, each assigned a national cultural theme. The tango series slot went to a tradition that, by the mid-twentieth century, had become more Finnish than foreign.

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