Catalog
| Issuer | Finland |
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| Year | 1941-1943 |
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| Currency | Markka (1860-1963) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
| Obverse lettering | 1941 |
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| Additional information |
Finland's wartime copper coinage was shaped directly by material shortages brought on by the Continuation War against the Soviet Union. The removal of the center hole — present on earlier issues — was a production decision driven by metal conservation, not design preference. Eliminating the hole recovered a small but meaningful amount of copper per coin across millions of strikes.
KM#33.2 is distinguished from its predecessor precisely by this absence, making die attribution straightforward for the series.