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100 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI MAKSAA TÄSTÄ SETELISTÄ SATA MARKKAA KULLASSA (Translation: Bank of Finland will pay for this banknote One Hundred Marks in gold) |
| Reverse description | Wine-red on grey-green guilloche underprint, with a central vignette of a Finnish church rendered in black. Large numeral "100" appears on both the left and right sides of the composition. Finnish and Swedish inscriptions run along the upper border, Russian text along the lower border, with additional legislative text in Finnish and Swedish in smaller lettering on either side of the central vignette. |
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Finland was still a Grand Duchy under Russian imperial rule when this note was issued — the Suomen Pankki operated with a degree of autonomy unusual for a subject territory, but the political pressure was real. The 1909 series came during the so-called "second period of oppression," when Russian authorities were actively pushing to curtail Finnish institutional independence, making the continued operation of a distinctly Finnish central bank quietly significant.
The suffix designation E22 within the Pick 19 series indicates a specific signature combination, useful for pinning down the precise issuing period within a run that stretched across nearly a decade of administrative turbulence.