Estonian euro coins

[3] On 13 July 2010, Estonia received the final approval from the ECOFIN to adopt the euro as from 1 January 2011.

On 20 July 2010, mass production of Estonian euro coins began in the Mint of Finland.

[4] * No coins were minted that year for that denomination 2011: Finland 2012: Netherlands 2015: Lithuania 2016-2018: Finland Ethnic Setos have protested the design of the coin, claiming that the outline of the map of Estonia does not include the former south eastern region of Estonia that constituted a part of the Seto homeland annexed by Stalin during the occupation of the Baltic states.

[12] On the other hand, a Russian lawyer Sergei Seredenko claimed that the outline included Russian-controlled areas.

[13] The Russian embassy was prompted to issue a statement that the euro coins do indeed depict the current borders of the country's territory.