FINLAND - Sámi Culture - 20 Euro - 2018 - Proof Silver Coin - OGP & COA

Description

The Sámi people are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. The Sámi have historically been known in English as Lapps or Laplanders, but these terms are regarded as offensive by some Sámi people, who prefer the area's name in their own languages, e.g. Northern Sami "Sápmi". Sámi ancestral lands are in the Volga region, in present-day Russia, like other Uralic peoples. Their traditional languages are the Sámi languages, which are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family. This coin was struck from 25.5 grams of .925 silver with a total mintage of 4,000 pieces. It comes as issued in Original Government Packaging with a Certificate of Authenticity.