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| Issuer | Mint of Finland (Suomen Rahapaja) |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Weight | 9.8 g |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMI FINLAND |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Finland's regional series, launched in 2005, assigned one commemorative five-euro coin to each of the country's historical provinces — Lapland being among the final issues in the run. These were never intended as circulating currency; sold directly to collectors at a premium, most examples went straight into albums, which accounts for the near-universal gem condition in which they appear on the market.
Lapland covers roughly a third of Finland's total land area but holds under four percent of its population — a demographic fact the Finnish government leaned on heavily in regional identity politics of the 2000s.