5 Markkaa

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.