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100 Markkaa, Litt. A 1918
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Value | 100 Markkaa |
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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 underprint, centred by a black vignette of a Finnish church, with large numeral '100' repeated on either side. Bilingual Finnish and Swedish text runs along the upper border, Russian text along the lower border, with smaller bilingual legal text panels in Finnish and Swedish flanking the central vignette. |
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This note was printed in 1909 but held in reserve, only entering circulation in 1918 following Finnish independence and the Civil War — a conflict that severely disrupted the banking system and forced the Bank of Finland to release older, unissued stock to meet demand. The "Litt. A" designation distinguishes this specific letter series from later printings of the same type.
The timing matters: Finland declared independence in December 1917, and the White and Red factions were at war by January 1918. Notes released into that environment saw hard use fast.