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20 ECU Johan Ludvig Runeberg
| Issuer | Mint of Finland (Suomen Rahapaja) |
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| Year | 1995 |
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| Thickness | 3 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 20 ECU SUOMI FINLAND P 1995 |
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| Reverse script | Latin |
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Johan Ludvig Runeberg, Finland's national poet, had been dead for over a century by the time this coin was struck — his 190th birth anniversary fell in 1994, making the 1995 issue a slight calendrical lag typical of commemorative planning cycles. The ECU denomination is the curiosity here: Finland had not yet joined the eurozone, and these ECU-denominated pieces were issued into a collector market rather than circulation, riding the wave of pre-euro commemorative ECU coinage that several European nations exploited through the early 1990s. Finland joined the EU in January 1995, the same year this piece was minted.