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100 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1882 |
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| Reference(s) | P#A48 |
| Obverse description | Printed in red and black over a dense guilloche underprint repeating the numeral 100 across the entire field, the obverse centres on the Finnish coat of arms — a crowned shield with a double-headed eagle — flanked by ornate cartouches bearing the bilingual denomination '100 MARK' (left) and '100 MARKKAA' (right). Promise-to-pay text in Swedish at left and Finnish at right is rendered in decorative script, with the date 1882 in a cartouche at the foot centre. Two manuscript signatures appear above the date, with serial numbers placed at the lower left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | 100 MARK 100 MARKKAA EMOT DENNA SEDEL betalar FINLANDS BANK vid anfordran HUNDRA MARK I GULD Tästä Setelistä maksaa Suomen Pankki vaadittaissa Sata Markkaa kullassa 1882 |
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The Suomen Pankki 100 Markkaa of 1882 was issued during a period when Finland operated as an autonomous Grand Duchy under the Russian Empire yet maintained its own currency — the markka had been pegged to the French franc and placed on a silver standard in 1865, a deliberate act of fiscal separation from the Russian ruble that St. Petersburg tolerated with some unease.
The P#A48 designation signals a provisional or transitional classification, suggesting this note sits at the edge of a series boundary rather than cleanly within an established issue run. Worth verifying the exact emission date against bank ledger records before cataloging as a type piece.