2 euro Finland 2015 – 30th anniversary of the EU flag Finland

In July 2015, the 19 euro-area countries jointly issued a commemorative euro coin celebrating 30 years of the EU flag. Regardless of the country, it bears the same design on the national side, normally reserved for a motif specific to that country. A professional jury selected five coin designs among the 62 designs submitted by Euro area mints. Euro-area citizens and residents were invited to select the winning design by public web-voting.The winning design of the online vote was by the hand of Georgios Stamatopoulos from the Bank Of Greece. Marking the 30th anniversary of the EU flag, Stamatopoulos entry depicts 12 people forming a human chain around that flag with the 12 gold stars on a blue background. Issuing volume: 489,000 coins. Issuing date: August 2015.