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Finnish coat of arm figures a lion keeping straight western sword in his hand and trampling an eastern sword (scimitar).
First time the lion of the Finnish coat of arm exists in the beginning of the 14th century in the seal of Valdemar Mangnusson who was the duke of Finland.
In the 16th century it was already reached the current shape on the burial of Gustav Vasa.
During the Russian era the original figure was replaced by Russian symbols.
After 1917
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