50 penniä FINLAND (1990-2001)

above the coin centre brown bear (Ursus arctos) standing on a hill en face; below in two lines: SUOMI / FINLAND (Finland in Finnish and Swedish); below year of issue

above the coin centre large face value: 50 (penniä); below in two lines: PENNIÄ / PENNI (penniä in Finnish and Swedish); on the left and on the bottom stars symbolising moss

reeded

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28 II 2002

Antti Neuvonen

Rahapaja Oy (The Mint), Vantaa (below letter 'P' in PENNI on the reverse initial M of the mint director Makkonen)

1990	70 459 000	M	+ 45 250 in annual boxed sets
1991	90 480 000	M	+ 35 000 in annual boxed sets
1992	58 996 000	M	+ 70 000 in annual boxed sets
1993	10 066 000	M	+ 60 790 in annual boxed sets
1994	3 005 000	M	+ 40 000 in annual boxed sets
1995	1 048 000	M	+ 38 190 in annual boxed sets
1996	17 000 000	M	+ 16 300 in annual boxed sets
1997	524 000	M	+ 18 000 in annual boxed sets
1998	3 345 500	M	+ 18 000 in annual boxed sets
1999	100 000	M	+ 43 500 in annual boxed sets
2000	100 000	M	+ 35 000 in annual boxed sets
2001	200 000	M	+ 85 000 in annual boxed sets

1991 - year of issue shifted to the left, so that ht e first digit '1' is in line with a letter 'L' in FINLAND or year of issue shifted to the right so that the second digit '1' is in line with a leg of letter 'N' in FINLAND;

1994, 1995 - initial M of mint director Makkonen is large or the initial is small

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)

Brown bear (Ursus arctos) 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, lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis), whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) and european perch (Perca fluviatilis).