5 Markkaa

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.