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  • 5 Euro 2013, KM# 195, Finland, Republic, Provincial Buildings, Karelia - Imatra Hydropower Plant
  • 5 Euro 2013, KM# 195, Finland, Republic, Provincial Buildings, Karelia - Imatra Hydropower Plant
  • 5 Euro 2013, KM# 195, Finland, Republic, Provincial Buildings, Karelia - Imatra Hydropower Plant, Proof package
  • 5 Euro 2013, KM# 195, Finland, Republic, Provincial Buildings, Karelia - Imatra Hydropower Plant, Fold-out packaging
Description

The Provincial Buildings coin series celebrates buildings or structures relating to Finland’s historical provinces. Each of these landmarks describes in its own unique way Finnish culture, the spirit of the time and the people themselves. The ’Provincial Buildings’ coin series memorialises one building or structure from each of Finland’s historical provinces. These provinces are Åland, Finland Proper, Satakunta, Uusimaa, Karelia, Tavastia, Savonia, Ostrobothnia and Lapland.

Issue date: 30.9.2013

Obverse

Depicts Imatra hydropower plant, country name in Finnish above and Swedish below, engraver's initial (N) in the centre.

The Imatra hydropower plant, completed in 1929, is located in the centre of the city of Imatra. The hydropower plant is Finland’s biggest. Its output is 192 MW and its head is 24 meters. One Kaplan and six Francis turbines. Average annual production covers the annual electricity use of 50,000+ households with electric heat.

Imatra rapids are Finland’s oldest tourist attraction, and people have come even from abroad to admire their surging white waters as early as the 18th century.

SUOMI
N
FINLAND

Reverse

Depicts the historic coat of arms of Karelia, a region of Finland surrounded by the value and the date above. Engraver's initial (T) and the mint's logo (lion) on the right.

Karelia is a historical province of Finland that Finland partly ceded to the Soviet Union after the Winter War of 1939–40. The Finnish Karelians include the present-day inhabitants of North and South Karelia and the still-surviving evacuees from the ceded territories.

The coat of arms of Karelia in Finland were first used in 1562, although the arms were probably presented at the burial of Gustav Vasa in 1560. The blazon for the arms may be translated as follows: A golden crown above two duelling arms, the right guantleted arm holding a sword and the left mailed arm a scimitar, all silver except for golden hafts and gauntlet joint. Ducal coronet. The two hands holding a sword and a scimitar are generally seen as symbol of Karelia's position between the Swedish and Russian realms.

Engraver: Nora Tapper

2013
5 T
EURO

Edge

5 Euro

Provincial Buildings
Karelia - Imatra Hydropower Plant

Subscribe series
KM# 195 Schön# 191
Characteristics
Type Commemorative Issue (Non-circulating)
Material Bi-Metallic
Ring Aluminium Bronze
Center Cupronickel
Weight 9.8 g
Diameter 27.25 mm
Thickness -
Shape round
Alignment Medal
Mint
Mint of Finland

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