2 euro cent FINLAND (1999-2006)

posrodku coins lion - Finnish Coat of Arms; on the left year of issue; at the edge a ring of twelve five-pointed stars - symbol of the European Union

left from the coin centre face value 2, on the top right in two lines: EURO / CENT; below the globe with a view to Europe; in the background diagonally six parallel lines ending on both sides with five-pointed stars (the reverse is common for all euro coins)

plain with a groove in the middle

1 I 2002

still in circulation

Heikki Hälväoja, Luc Luycx (initials LL right from the globe on the reverse)

Rahapaja Oy (The Mint), Vantaa (below sabre grip of the Coat of arms on the obverse initial M of the mint director Makkonen)

1999	1 695 000	M	+ 75 000 in annual boxed sets
2000	13 847 000	M	+ 75 000 in annual boxed sets
2001	410 000	M	+ 75 000 in annual boxed sets
2002	512 000	M	+ 134 000 in annual boxed sets
2003	6 543 500	M	+ 232 000 in annual boxed sets
2004	7 901 000	M	+ 118 000 in annual boxed sets
2005	5 719 500	M	+ 76 000 in annual boxed sets
2006	3 924 400	M	+ 74 306 in annual boxed sets

On Finnish coins produced after 1945 the following initials of directors of the Finnish Mint can be found:

• S - Isak Gustaf Sundell (in years 1912 - 1947)

• L - Vesa Uolevi Liuhto (1948)

• H - Peippo Uolevi Helle (1948 - 1958)

• S - Allan Alarik Soiniemi (1958 - 1975)

• K - Timo Kauko Koivuranta (1976 -1983)

• N - Reino Tapio Nevalainen (1983 - 1987)

• M - Reino Tapio Makkonen (1987 - 2006)