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1000 Markkaa
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1941 |
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| Currency | Markka (1860-1963) |
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| Obverse description | Brown intaglio print on paper; a central vignette of a group of thirteen figures occupies the middle field, flanked by bilingual inscriptions in Finnish (left) and Swedish (right). A large guilloche numeral 1000 appears at centre-left, Finland's Coat of Arms at lower right, two manuscript signatures at bottom centre, and the lithograph overprint 'Litt. E' in black at upper left; serial numbers at lower left and right. |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI TUHAT MARKKAA FINLANDS BANK ETTUSEN MARK 1941 (Translation: Bank of Finland One thousand Marks 1941) |
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Finland's wartime economy placed extraordinary strain on the Bank of Finland's note supply. The 1941 series was issued during the Continuation War, when Finland had re-entered conflict alongside Germany following the Soviet invasion of 1940 — a period of acute monetary pressure and rapid price inflation that would eventually render high-denomination notes like this one practically routine for everyday transactions.
P#74 is a wartime reissue of an earlier design, not a newly commissioned note. The Bank of Finland leaned on existing plate work rather than commissioning fresh engraving, a cost and time decision common to belligerent states printing under military conditions.