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100 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1898 |
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| Reference(s) | P#7 |
| Obverse description | Purple-toned note with denomination numerals in all four corners and a large "100M" guilloche underprint at centre. A vignette of a farming couple appears at left, with the Finnish Eagle crest at centre-right accompanied by the serial number; bilingual text runs across the note with Swedish above and Finnish below. Two signatures appear at bottom centre with the issue year immediately below. |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI maksaa tästä setelistä SATA MARKKAA KULLASSA FINLANDS BANK inlöser denna sedel med ETTHUNDRA MARK I GULD (Translation: Bank of Finland will pay for this banknote One Hundred Marks in Gold [In Swedish on the top, and in Finnish below it]) |
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Finland was still an autonomous Grand Duchy under Russian rule when this note was issued, and the Bank of Finland operated under a peculiar dual sovereignty — nominally subject to the Tsar yet functionally independent in its monetary affairs. The 1898 series represented a deliberate modernization of Finnish note design at a moment when the markkaa had been pegged to gold since 1878, giving it unusual stability relative to most European currencies of the period.
Pick 7 is among the scarcer issues of the pre-independence Suomen Pankki series. Two decades of circulation before the upheavals of 1917–1918 left few examples in presentable condition.