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100 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1909 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse description | Wine-red intaglio on grey-green guilloche underprint. A Czarist imperial eagle occupies the upper centre, flanked symmetrically by vignettes of a farmer plowing. Denomination numerals appear in the upper left and right corners, with parallel Finnish and Swedish text columns framing the centre; serial numbers are positioned at lower left and right, with authorising signatures at bottom centre. |
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| Reverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI FINLANDS BANK ФИНЛЯНСКЙ БАНК СТО МАРОКЪ ЗОЛОТОМЪ LAKI SUOMEN SUURIRUHTINAANMAAN RAHASTA ANNETTU HELSINGISSÄ 9P:NÄ ELOKUUTA 1877. 1§ SUOMENMAAN RAHALAITOKSEN KANTANA ON KULTA AINOANA ARVONMITTANA. (Translation: [Top] Bank of Finland, in Finnish and in Swedish. [Bottom in Russian] Bank of Finland One Hundred Marks in Gold. [Small lettering on either side] The law on the Grand Duchy of Finland's money enacted in Helsinki on 9th of August 1877. 1§ The Finnish department of finance determines gold as the only standard of value) |
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Finland was still a Grand Duchy under Russian imperial rule when this note was issued — the Suomen Pankki operated with a degree of autonomy unusual for a subject territory, but the political pressure was real. The 1909 series came during the so-called "second period of oppression," when Russian authorities were actively pushing to curtail Finnish institutional independence, making the continued operation of a distinctly Finnish central bank quietly significant.
The suffix designation E22 within the Pick 19 series indicates a specific signature combination, useful for pinning down the precise issuing period within a run that stretched across nearly a decade of administrative turbulence.