1000 Markkaa Independence

Issued to mark the 75th anniversary of Finnish independence, declared on December 6, 1917, at a moment when the country was still navigating the chaos following the Russian Revolution. The timing of that original declaration was itself disputed within the Finnish Senate — the vote passed, but the new state's survival depended almost immediately on a brutal civil war fought in early 1918 between Red and White factions, leaving roughly 36,000 dead in under four months.

KM#72 had a mintage of 10,000 pieces, struck at the Helsinki Mint before its privatization later in the decade.