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.
Sälskär Lighthouse. Far out at sea, in the strait between Åland and Sweden, lies the Sälskär lighthouse. It was lit for the first time in 1868, when the island was inhabited by a lighthouse keeper and lighthouse guards with their families. The lighthouse, one of the most beautiful in the Baltic, illuminated the voyage of seafarers in the hard-to navigate strait through which people voyage to new adventures or return home.
