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20 Markkaa / Mark
| Issuer | Suomen Pankki / Finlands Bank |
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| Year | 1922 |
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| Currency | Markka (1860-2002) |
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| Obverse description | Rose-red note centred on a large spreading oak tree within a circular guilloche frame, with the numeral '20' in ornate type on either side of the vignette. The inscription 'SUOMEN PANKKI KAKSIKYMMENTÄ' appears at lower left and 'FINLANDS BANK TJUGU MARK' at lower right, with two red serial numbers and two manuscript signatures below the central design. 'Litt. B' is printed in the upper left area above the main vignette. |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI KAKSIKYMMENTÄ FINLANDS BANK TJUGU MARK 20 Litt. B |
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Finland's 1922 series was printed domestically — a deliberate post-independence policy shift away from the Russian-era reliance on foreign printers. Suomen Pankki had issued notes under Tsarist oversight until 1917, and the early republican issues carry a certain institutional self-consciousness, the central bank asserting its own authority over production for the first time.
P#58 is among the more commonly encountered survivors from the series, though notes that passed through heavy commercial use in Helsinki's market economy of the early 1920s often show horizontal fold fatigue along the center crease.