Description

The Tartu Peace Treaty (Estonian: Tartu rahu, literally "Tartu peace") was Signed on the 2nd February 1920, the treaty formally recognised Estonian independence, which was won after the Baltic nation fought a war against Russia, following the abdication of Czar Nicholas II in 1917 and the eventual break-up of the Russian Empire. The treaty was signed in Estonia’s second city of Tartu, in the building of the Estonian Students’ Society by representatives of the new Estonian government and by those representing the new Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic. The terms stated that ”Russia unreservedly recognises” the independence of the Republic of Estonia de jure (from that moment on) and renounces, in perpetuity, all rights to the territory of Estonia. Ratifications of the treaty were exchanged in Moscow on the 30th March 1920, and it was registered in the League of Nations on the 12th July 1922.

The coin’s design is the work of Ivar Sakk and was approved by the Bank of Estonia’s Supervisory Board after the launch of a public competition to design the coin failed to find an appropriate design.