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100 Markkaa, Litt. A 1918
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1909 |
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| Reference(s) | P#28 |
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| Reverse description | Wine-red on grey-green underprint, centred by a black vignette of a Finnish church, with large numeral '100' repeated on either side. Bilingual Finnish and Swedish text runs along the upper border, Russian text along the lower border, with smaller bilingual legal text panels in Finnish and Swedish flanking the central vignette. |
| 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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This note was printed in 1909 but held in reserve, only entering circulation in 1918 following Finnish independence and the Civil War — a conflict that severely disrupted the banking system and forced the Bank of Finland to release older, unissued stock to meet demand. The "Litt. A" designation distinguishes this specific letter series from later printings of the same type.
The timing matters: Finland declared independence in December 1917, and the White and Red factions were at war by January 1918. Notes released into that environment saw hard use fast.