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1000 Markkaa
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Composition | Paper |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI TUHAT MARKKAA FINLANDS BANK ETTUSEN MARK (Translation: Bank of Finland One thousand Marks) |
| Reverse description | Monochrome guilloche ground with dense star-pattern trellis underprint; the Finnish Coat of Arms — lion passant on a crowned shield — occupies the centre within an elaborate foliate vignette flanked by ornamental column borders. Large denomination numerals 1000 appear at lower left and right, with the series year 1922 in the bottom margin. |
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Finland's post-independence monetary situation was genuinely unstable through the early 1920s, and the 1000 Markkaa denomination carried real weight in daily commerce at a time when inflation was eroding smaller notes faster than they could be replaced. This was the highest denomination the Bank of Finland circulated during that period, and it moved through commercial rather than retail hands almost exclusively.
Pick 48 is the 1922-dated variety within a series that ran across several years with only minor differences between issues — a point that trips up collectors who conflate date variants. Condition is routinely poor; heavy folding patterns are almost universal on surviving examples, consistent with prolonged use in business transactions.