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5 Euros President Risto Heikki Ryti
| Issuer | Mint of Finland |
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| Year | 2017 |
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| Composition | Bimetallic: nickel brass clad nickel centre in aluminium bronze ring (CuNi25, CuAl6Ni2) |
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| Obverse description | Bimetallic coin with a nickel-clad centre set within an aluminium bronze ring. The centre features a stylised architectural townscape rendered in a geometric, modernist relief, depicting rooftops and building facades reflected above a body of water with wavy lines in the exergue. A rectangular frame encloses the central design, evoking a window or pictorial panel. The legend SUOMI to the left and FINLAND arching across the upper field of the ring, with the date 2017 to the right; the denomination 5 EURO appears along the lower arc. The engraver's initial L and the mint mark of the Mint of Finland appear flanking the central disc. |
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| Mintage | 2017 - - 30,000 2017 - Proof - 6,000 |
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Risto Ryti served as Finland's president through the entirety of the Continuation War, and his legacy is inseparable from the 1944 Ryti-Ribbentrop Agreement — a personal letter to Hitler in which Ryti pledged, in his own name rather than the state's, that Finland would not seek a separate peace. The legal fiction was deliberate: it allowed his successor Mannerheim to immediately repudiate the agreement and negotiate an armistice with the Soviets. Ryti was subsequently tried and imprisoned for war responsibility, the only Finnish head of state ever convicted.