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100 Marka
| Issuer | Eesti Pank (Bank of Estonia) |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Currency | Marka (1918-1927) |
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| Obverse lettering | EESTI PANGATAHT 100 SADA MARKA 1921 |
| Reverse description | Brown-toned reverse dominated by a large symmetrical guilloche pattern composed of interlocking scrollwork and rosettes, with the denomination numeral "100" in white relief at left and right. The legend "EESTI PANGATAHT" appears across the upper border, and "SADA MARKA" runs along the bottom margin. Blocks of Estonian legal tender text are set within plain rectangular panels at lower left and lower right. |
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Estonia's first independent central bank, Eesti Pank, was established in 1919, and the Mark series that followed represented the country's break from the provisional German-occupation currency still circulating at independence. The American Bank Note Company contract was a deliberate political signal — commissioning an American firm carried weight in a young state anxious to establish international credibility, and ABNC's engraved work was a significant step up from the lithographed emergency issues that preceded it.
The Mark itself was short-lived. Estonia replaced it with the Kroon in 1928 at a rate of 100 Marka to 1 Kroon, collapsing this denomination to a single unit of the successor currency.