Catalogus
| Uitgever | Suomen Pankki (Bank of Finland) |
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| Jaar | 1897 |
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| Afmetingen | 115 × 70 mm |
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| Opschrift voorzijde | SUOMEN PANKKI maksaa tästä setelistä VIISI MARKKAA KULLASSA FINLANDS BANK inlöser denna sedel med FEM MARK I GULD (Translation: Bank of Finland will pay for this banknote Five Marks in Gold [Finnish above, Swedish below]) |
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| Opschrift keerzijde | ФИНЛЯНДСКІЙ БАНКЪ 5 МАРОКЪ ЗОЛОТОМЪ FINLANDS BANK 5 MARK SUOMEN PANKKI 5 MARKKAA LAKI SUOMEN SUURIRUHTINAANMAAN RAHASTA ANNETTU HELSINGISSÄ 9P:NÄ ELOKUUTA 1877. 1§ SUOMENMAAN RAHALAITOKSEN KANTANA ON KULTA AINOANA ARVONMITTANA. (Translation: [Russian] Bank of Finland 5 Marks in Gold; [Swedish] Bank of Finland 5 Marks; [Finnish] Bank of Finland 5 Marks; [Swedish/Finnish, small lettering] The law on the Grand Duchy of Finland's money enacted in Helsinki on 9th of August 1877. 1§ The Finnish monetary system recognises gold as the sole standard of value.) |
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Finland's monetary system in the 1890s operated under the gold-backed markka, which the country had managed independently since 1878 despite remaining a Russian Grand Duchy. The Bank of Finland's ability to issue currency with no Russian imperial iconography was a practical concession Moscow never fully rescinded, giving Finnish notes a distinctly separate administrative identity from rouble-zone paper.
The P#2 5 Markkaa series is among the earliest surviving small-denomination Finnish issues in collector hands. Many lower-value notes from this period were used hard and discarded; bank archives suggest redemption rates were high, and surviving examples with intact margins are genuinely uncommon.