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1.000 Markkaa / Mark
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki / Finlands Bank |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Value | 1.000 Markkaa |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI TUHAT MARKKAA FINLANDS BANK ETTUSEN MARK Litt. C 1922 1000 |
| Reverse description | The reverse is dominated by a large central vignette of the Finnish coat of arms — a crowned lion rampant on a shield — set against an elaborate guilloche background of dense foliate and scrollwork patterns. The numeral '1000' appears in large format at lower left and lower right, with ornate column borders framing the note on both vertical edges. The year '1922' is inscribed along the lower border. |
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Finland's postwar monetary situation was chaotic enough that the Suomen Pankki was issuing high-denomination notes almost continuously through the early 1920s, attempting to absorb the inflation driven by wartime disruption and the economic dislocation that followed independence in 1917. The 1922 series represented an effort to stabilize the note supply rather than introduce new denominations — by this point the markka had lost a substantial fraction of its prewar value against gold.
Pick 67 was printed domestically, an increasingly deliberate policy choice as Finland built its own printing infrastructure rather than relying on foreign security printers. The watermark is the primary security device, modest by the standards of contemporary Western European issues.