5 Pennia

Finland struck this coin as an independent nation for the first time — the country had declared independence from Russia in December 1917, and the first copper issues of 1918 appeared amid an ongoing civil war between the White and Red factions. That the mint functioned at all during early 1918 is notable. The series ran through 1940, the year the Winter War with the Soviet Union ended, after which wartime metal pressures reshaped Finnish coinage entirely.