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100 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Currency | Markka (1860-1963) |
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| Reverse description | Wine-red intaglio print on a grey-green guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of a Finnish church rendered in black. Large numeral 100 flanks the central vignette on either side, Finnish and Swedish institutional text runs along the top border, Russian text occupies the bottom border, and columns of Finnish and Swedish legislative text are set to the left and right respectively. |
| Reverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI FINLANDS BANK ФИНЛЯНДСКІЙ БАНК СТО МАРОКЪ ЗОЛОТОМЪ LAKI SUOMEN SUURIRUHTINAANMAAN RAHASTA ANNETTU HELSINGISSÄ 9P:NÄ ELOKUUTA 1877. 1§ SUOMENMAAN RAHALAITOKSEN KANTANA ON KULTA AINOANA ARVONMITTANA. (Translation: [Top] Bank of Finland in Finnish and Swedish. [Bottom in Russian] Bank of Finland, One Hundred Marks in Gold. [Side columns] The law on the Grand Duchy of Finland's money enacted in Helsinki on 9th of August 1877. 1§ The Finnish monetary system determines gold as the sole standard of value.) |
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Pick 13 was introduced as Finland moved toward a more assertive monetary posture under the autonomous Grand Duchy framework — still nominally under Russian imperial authority but operating its own currency through Suomen Pankki, which had functioned as a central bank in all but name since the 1860s. The 100 Markkaa denomination was the largest in everyday commercial use, and this series would remain in circulation well past the 1917 independence declaration.
Collectors should note that the series spans a wide date range and that later printings within the P13 type show subtle typographic differences in the serial numbering — enough to matter for variety collectors, not enough to affect general catalog pricing.