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5 Markkaa
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Value | 5 Markkaa |
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| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse carries a central black vignette of a rowboat on a river, flanked on either side by a large numeral 5. A bilingual Finnish and Swedish border inscription runs along the upper margin, with Russian text along the lower border, and smaller legal text in Finnish and Swedish on the left and right sides respectively. |
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| Protection description | SP on lower left, FB on lower right; note was issued both with and without this watermark |
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Finland was still a Grand Duchy under Russian rule when this note was issued, and the Bank of Finland — Suomen Pankki — operated under that political constraint while maintaining its own currency, the markka, entirely separate from the ruble. The markka's survival as a distinct monetary unit throughout the Russian period owed much to Finnish administrative autonomy, a status the Senate defended aggressively after 1899 when Bobrikov's Russification decrees threatened it.
Pick 20 belongs to a series that remained in circulation well past the independence declaration of 1917, bridging two entirely different political realities without a design change.