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Estonia Releases 2-euro Coin Dedicated To Ukraine

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Estonia on Tuesday began putting into circulation two million two-euro coins with a special design dedicated to Ukraine and will be selling special editions to raise money for the country.

“The two-euro coin dedicated to Ukraine will from today start to reach people throughout Estonia and elsewhere in Europe through shops,” Estonia central bank governor Madis Muller said in a statement.

The coin was designed by Daria Titova, a Ukrainian refugee studying art in Estonia, and depicts a woman holding a bird next to an ear of wheat and the popular Ukrainian slogan “Glory to Ukraine”.

The central bank had already released special coin cards with the design in July but this is the first time the coin is being minted for general use.

“Ukraine is currently fighting a war at the cost of the lives of its own people for the shared values of the European cultural space, and it is up to us to keep supporting them in this,” Muller said.

The governor said that 350,000 euros ($362,000) in proceeds from sales of the coin cards since this summer had already been donated to Ukraine.

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