10 penniä FINLAND (1990-2001)

in the coin centre lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis); on the right in two lines: SUOMI / FINLAND (Finland in Finnish and Swedish); below year of issue

on the left side a honeycomb; on the right large face value: 10 (penniä); below in two lines: PENNIÄ / PENNI (penniä in Finnish and Swedish)

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Antti Neuvonen

Rahapaja Oy (The Mint), Vantaa (at the leaf of the lily of the valley on the obverse bottom initial M of the mint director Makkonen)

1990	338 100 000	M	+ 45 250 in annual boxed sets
1991	263 899 000	M	+ 35 000 in annual boxed sets
1992	136 131 000	M	+ 70 000 in annual boxed sets
1993	56 206 000	M	+ 60 790 in annual boxed sets
1994	59 946 000	M	+ 40 000 in annual boxed sets
1995	85 000 000	M	+ 38 190 in annual boxed sets
1996	123 000 000	M	+ 16 300 in annual boxed sets
1997	43 406 000	M	+ 18 000 in annual boxed sets
1998	95 322 000	M	+ 18 000 in annual boxed sets
1999	46 375 000	M	+ 43 500 in annual boxed sets
2000	114 903 000	M	+ 35 000 in annual boxed sets
2001	25 000 000	M	+ 85 000 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)

Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) is one of the six symbols of nature chosen by Finns in a voting in the eighties of the 20th century. Through the voting the nation was introduced to the need to preserve the Finnish environment. The symbols of nature became as well: silver birch (Betula pendula), granite rocks, brown bear (Ursus arctos), whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) and european perch (Perca fluviatilis).