10 Euros Finnish Tango

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.