2018 Estonia €2 UNC Coin "Republic 100 Years"

• Denomination: €2
• Quality: UNC
• Issue limit: 1.317 million/
• Alloy: Base Metal
• Diameter: 25.75 mm
• Weight: 8.5 grams
• Design: Ionel Lehari & Meelis Opmann
• Box/Capsule: No/Yes
• Certificate: No

Additional Information

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Estonian Independence was declared from Russia on the 24th February 1918, which is the day that is celebrated (the declaration was officially recognised by the Treaty of Tartu on the 2nd February 1920). This self-determination was short-lived, with Soviet forces occupying Estonia along with Latvia and Lithuania in 1944 when all three Baltic States were illegally incorporated into the USSR. Estonian independence would not be re-established until 1991, when the USSR once again recognised all three Baltic States as independent. Estonia is a member of the EU and NATO since 2004.

The coin design features the jubilee’s official national logo, which can be read as the numbers 18 and 100. This trick with the numbers unites the year of the state’s founding with the centenary anniversary.

The coin's obverse is identical to that of ordinary €2 circulation coins.

As the coin is intended to symbolize and honor the people of Estonia, the mintage is 1,317,800 - equal to the population of Estonia recorded on January 1, 2017, according to data from Statistics Estonia.