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50 Markkaa World Ice Hockey Championship Games
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1982 |
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| Weight | 23.1 g |
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| Reverse description | A dynamic full-figure depiction of an ice hockey player in mid-stride, skating to the left with a hockey stick extended toward a puck at the lower center of the field. The player is rendered in high relief with detailed equipment and athletic posture conveying motion and energy. To the upper right, an abstract decorative motif echoing the hockey stick design from the obverse appears in the field. The legend 'MM' (abbreviation for 'Maailmanmestaruus', World Championship) appears to the right, with the date '1982' directly below. |
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| Mintage | 1982 T - - 400,000 |
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Finland hosted the Ice Hockey World Championship in 1982 — the tournament running through April in Helsinki and Tampere — and the Bank of Finland issued this coin as a direct commemoration. It was Finland's second time hosting the championship, the first having been 1965. The Soviet Union won gold that year, as they did with numbing regularity throughout the era.
The .500 fineness is characteristic of Finnish commemorative silver from this period, a deliberate cost-containment choice that kept face value meaningful relative to metal content.