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10 Pennia Civil War Coinage
| Issuer | Finland |
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| Year | 1917 |
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| Composition | Copper |
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| Obverse description | Central field features the Imperial Russian double-headed eagle displayed, with a crowned shield bearing the arms of Finland on its breast, holding a royal orb in its right talon and a sceptre in its left. The eagle's two heads are crowned individually with Imperial crowns, surmounted by a larger central Imperial crown above. The design is enclosed within a beaded inner circle, with the field otherwise plain. |
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| Mint | Helsinki Mint |
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Finland's 1917 copper coinage occupies an unusual constitutional limbo: struck while Finland was still a Grand Duchy under a Russian Empire that had just collapsed, the coins bear no tsar's cipher — an omission that was politically loaded rather than accidental. The Senate, asserting administrative autonomy following the February Revolution, authorized continuation of coinage under Finnish authority before independence was formally declared in December.
The "Civil War" designation reflects what followed almost immediately: by January 1918, the country had fractured into Red and White factions. These coins entered circulation just as that conflict was beginning.