Catalog
5 Markkaa
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1928-1946 |
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| Currency | Markka (1860-1963) |
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| Obverse script | Latin |
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| Mintage | 1928 - Mintage includes 1928 and 1929 - 576,000 1929 - 2 variants; see comments - 1930 - - 592,000 1931 - - 3,088,000 1932 - - 963,986 1933 - - 1,048,000 1935 - - 436,000 1936 - - 470,000 1937 - - 1,032,000 1938 - - 912,000 1939 - - 752,000 1940 - - 820,000 1941 - - 1,452,000 1942 - - 1,386,000 1946 - - 618,000 |
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Finland's aluminium bronze coinage of the interwar period was a direct response to metal economics following independence — silver had become too expensive to justify for workhorse denominations, and the alloy offered durability without the wartime strategic value that got so many European coin series suspended or recalled. This type survived the Winter War and Continuation War essentially intact as a circulating issue, a rarity for Finnish coinage of the period.
Post-1944 strikes were produced under the shadow of the Moscow Armistice reparations, which placed enormous strain on Finnish industrial output.