Catalog
1 Mark i Silfver / Markka Hopeassa / Marka Serebrom' (Silver Mark)
| Issuer | Finlands Bank / Suomen Pankki / Finlandskiy Bank' |
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| Year | 1867 |
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| Reference(s) | P#39A |
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| Obverse lettering | 1 Mark. 1 Markka. Emot denna sedel betalar Finlands Bank vid anfordran en summa af EN mark i silfver. Tätä seteliä vastaan makfaa Suomenmaan Pankki anomuksen päälle YHDEN markan hopeassa. Banko-Direktör Banko-Kassör ОДНА МАРКА СЕРЕБРОМЪ № |
| Reverse description | The reverse is printed primarily in Russian and carries the bearer clause 'Предъявителю сего Финляндскiй Банкъ выдаетъ ОДНУ Марку серебромъ' in large Cyrillic text across the upper half. The lower portion contains three parallel anti-counterfeiting warning texts in Swedish, Finnish, and Russian, each referencing the Imperial decree of 2 (14) November 1812. A faint circular bank stamp is visible at centre, and the overall layout is framed by a simple typographic border. |
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Finland's 1867 silver-denominated mark note was part of the first purely Finnish currency series following the monetary separation from the Russian ruble system — a process formalized under Alexander II's 1860 decree establishing the markka. The trilingual title (Swedish, Finnish, Russian) reflects the constitutional peculiarity of Finland's status as a Grand Duchy, where all three administrative languages carried equal legal weight on official instruments.
The 1867 issue is also inseparable from one of the worst famines in Finnish recorded history, which killed roughly eight percent of the population that same year. Whether that catastrophe affected note distribution and survival rates in rural areas is unrecorded, but examples from this date are genuinely scarce.