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5 Markkaa
| Issuer | Bank of Finland |
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| Year | 1909 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | SUOMEN PANKKI MAKSAA TÄSTÄ SETELISTÄ VIISI MARKKAA KULLASSA (Translation: Bank of Finland will pay for this banknote Five Marks in gold) |
| Reverse description | Printed in blue, the reverse carries a central black vignette of a rowboat on a river, flanked on each side by a large bold numeral 5. Bilingual Finnish and Swedish text runs along the upper border, with Russian text along the lower border, and smaller statutory text in Finnish and Swedish fills the lateral panels. |
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Finland was still a Grand Duchy under Russian imperial rule when this note was issued, which made the Bank of Finland's continued operation as a distinct institution something of a political anomaly. The 1909 series predates independence by nearly a decade, and the Markkaa itself was deliberately pegged to gold rather than the Russian ruble — a calculated insistence on monetary separation that St. Petersburg tolerated uneasily.
Pick 9 is the scarcer of the two signature varieties within this date range. Paper quality on surviving examples tends to be unforgiving of humidity damage, and edge splits are common along the horizontal fold lines.