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100 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1963 |
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| Size | 142 × 69 mm |
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| Obverse description | Central vignette presents a portrait of Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806–1881), Finnish statesman, philosopher, and nationalist, who served as Finance Minister during the introduction of the Markka in 1860. The denomination numeral 100 appears at centre and repeated at upper right and lower left within a guilloche underprint, with two authorising signatures above the series year at lower centre. All inscriptions are rendered in Finnish. |
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| Obverse lettering | SATA MARKKAA 100 SUOMEN PANKKI (Translation: One hundred Marks 100 Bank of Finland) |
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Pick 102 replaced the previous 100 Markkaa design following Finland's 1963 redenomination, which converted old markkas to new at 100:1 — effectively stripping two zeros from the currency and resetting a monetary system still carrying the weight of postwar inflation and the heavy reparations Finland paid to the Soviet Union through 1952.
Printed entirely in-house at the Bank of Finland's own press, which had operated since 1885 — one of the few central banks in the world to maintain full sovereign control over its note production throughout the twentieth century.