Dark and light brown, grey background. Two men holding a caduceus at centre. Czarist eagle at upper centre. Denomination in numerals on top left and right corners. Text in Finnish on left, and Swedish on right. Signatures in bottom centre overlaid on large 1000, serial numbers on left and right bottom.
Reverse description
Finnish landscape of a lake with islands and trees, with large numeral 1000 on either side. Finnish and Swedish text in top border, Russian text in bottom border. Small text in Finnish on left, and Swedish on right.
Signature(s)
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Protection description
Obverse lettering
SUOMEN PANKKI
MAKSAA TÄSTÄ SETELISTÄ
TUHAT MARKKAA
KULLASSA
FINLANDS BANK
INLÖSER DENNA SEDEL MED
ETTUSEN MARK
I GULD (Translation: Bank of Finland will pay for this banknote One Thousand Marks in gold)
Reverse lettering
SUOMEN PANKKI
FINLANDS BANK
ФИНЛЯНСКЙ БАНК ТЫСЯЧА 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 Thousand 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)